The Transfer of Strontium-90 from Mother to Offspring and the Change in the Nervous and Cardiovascular Systems of the Latter; PEREKHOV Sr$sup 90$ OT MATERI K POTOMSTVU I IZMENENIYA NERVNOI I SERDECHNO-SOSUDISTOI SISTEMY U POSLEDNIKH

Technical Report · Mon Aug 28 04:00:00 EDT 1961

OSTI ID:4841147

Levchenko, M A

ABS>Tests were made of nervous and cardiovascular system development in progenies of 240 female and 110 male rats suffering from radiation sickness induced by intraperitoneal doses of Sr/sup 90/. It is shown that the parents transmit radioactive isotopes into their progenies through the placenta and milk. In the first generation, uptake was 0.91 plus or minus 0.21%; in the second, 0.16 plus or minus 0.04%; and in the third, 0.06 plus or minus 0.03% of the mother's dose. Changes in the nervous system are expressed in more rapid exhaustion of cortex cells and in heart automatism, which is related to disturbance of the heart action and metabolic changes. The symptoms disappear in mature animals. Symptoms in progenies born 40 days after inclusion of Sr/sup 90/ into the mother are the results of transmittal to the progenies rather than action on the mother. (R.V.J.)

• Research Organization: U.S.S.R. Soviet Ministrov. Gosudarstvennti Komitet po Ispol'zovaniyu Atomnoi Energii
• NSA Number: NSA-15-030387
• OSTI ID: 4841147
• Report Number(s): A/AC.82/G/L.621
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BLOOD VESSELS
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HEART
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PLACENTA
RADIATION INJURIES
RADIATION SICKNESS
RADIOISOTOPES
RATS
STRONTIUM 90