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Radiation Injury Resulting from Nuclear Labeling with Tritiated Thymidine in the Chick Embryo

Journal Article · · Radiation Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3570903· OSTI ID:4030100

Two- to three-day old chick embryos were treated with thymidine-H/sup 3/ (10 to 50 mu c per embryo; specific activity 1.6 or 1.9 curies per millimole) through a window in the shell, and incubation was continued for 12 to 55 hours longer. All embryos incubated after treatment for 12 hours or longer displayed cytological changes characteristic of radiation injury. Injury could be avoided and satisfactory radioautographs still obtained by diluting the thymidine-H/sup 3/ one hundred to five hundred times with unlabeled thymidine, thus reducing the specific activity to 4 to 20 mu c/ mu M. (auth)

Research Organization:
Univ. of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-15-017949
OSTI ID:
4030100
Journal Information:
Radiation Research, Journal Name: Radiation Research Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 14; ISSN 0033-7587
Publisher:
Radiation Research Society
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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