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TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF IRRADIATION UPON THE WHOLESOMENESS OF FOOD. Progress Report No. 14, March-September 1962

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:4726582
Thesis by Om Parkash Maihotra submitted to Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Rations containing 35% irradiated beef caused spontaneous hemorrhages and subsequent death in male rats. Results are presented from a study of the effects of estrogen, testosterone, vitamin K, methionine, and strain of rat on the incidence of hemorrhagic disease, blood coagulation, and prothrombin times of plasma samples. The data suggest a probable interaction between vitamin K and methionine, but it was concluded that methionine destruction in irradiated beef was not the cause of hemorrhagic diathesis in rats fed the hemorrhagenic ration. (C.H.)
Research Organization:
Illinois. Univ., Urbana. Coll. of Veterinary Medicine and Illinois. Agricultural Experiment Station, Urbana
NSA Number:
NSA-17-016364
OSTI ID:
4726582
Report Number(s):
NP-12602
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English