Primate physical activity following exposure to a single 2000-rad pulsed dose of mixed gamma-neutron radiation. Scientific report

Technical Report · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1974

OSTI ID:7354890

Curran, C R; Franz, C G

Twelve male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained to perform one of the following tasks: discrete trial, cued avoidance; shock motivated physical activity; or a combined cued avoidance-physical activity task. All tests were conducted in a primate physical activity wheel developed at the AFRRI. The animals were exposed to a single 2000-rad pulsed dose of mixed neutron-gamma radiation. All animals performing the physical activity task experienced periods of early transient incapacitation within the first seven minutes of postirradiation testing. Only one of the animals performing the cued avoidance task experienced an early transient incapacitation. The animals performing the combined task experienced periods of early transient incapacitation on the physical activity task but not on the cued avoidance task. The recovery period performance level of each of the animals performing the physical acitvity task was also significantly lower than the performance of any animal performing the cued avoidance task. (GRA)

• Research Organization: Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Inst., Bethesda, Md. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7354890
• Report Number(s): AD-A-011044; AFRRI-SR-74-29
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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560152* -- Radiation Effects on Animals-- Animals
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BARYONS
BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
GAMMA RADIATION
HADRONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IRRADIATION
MAMMALS
MONKEYS
NEUTRONS
NUCLEONS
PRIMATES
PULSED IRRADIATION
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
VERTEBRATES