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Radiation-Induced Changes in Some Biochemical Parameters of the Haemopoietic Tissue of Rabbits

Abstract

Bone-marrow and reticulocyte suspensions obtained from rabbits following massive haemorrhage were irradiated by a cobalt source with doses ranging between 1000-10 000 rad. The radiation-induced injury to the nucleic acid synthesizing apparatus and to the haem-and protein-producing activity of the bone-marrow cells, as well as the damage to the haemoglobin synthesizing system of the reticulocytes, was investigated shortly after exposure. The amino-acid incorporation activity into protein was substantially reduced, together with all the other parameters measured in the bone-marrow cells, while globin synthesis was not affected at the same radiation dose in the reticulocytes. On the other hand, incorporation of haem precursors into protoporphyrin and of radio iron into protoporphyrin was inhibited both in the nucleated erythroid precursors and in the reticulocytes, more so in the former than in the latter. The implications of these findings and possible means to repair the biochemical injury are discussed. (author)
Authors:
Izak, G.; Karsai, A.; Eylon, L.; [1]  Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel)]
  1. Haematology Research Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital (Israel)
Publication Date:
Aug 15, 1968
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
IAEA-SM-103/51
Resource Relation:
Conference: Symposium on the Effects of Radiation on Cellular Proliferation and Differentiation, Monaco (Monaco), 1-5 Apr 1968; Other Information: 10 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.; Related Information: In: Effects of Radiation on Cellular Proliferation and Differentiation. Proceedings of a Symposium on the Effects of Radiation on Cellular Proliferation and Differentiation| 586 p.
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; AMINO ACIDS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELLS; COBALT; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; IRRADIATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RABBITS; RADIATION DOSES; RETICULOCYTES; SUSPENSIONS
OSTI ID:
22121048
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); Joint Commission on Applied Radioactivity of the International Council of Scientific Unions, Paris (France)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 0074-1884; TRN: XA13M0828077141
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 57-65
Announcement Date:
Aug 19, 2013

Citation Formats

Izak, G., Karsai, A., Eylon, L., and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel)]. Radiation-Induced Changes in Some Biochemical Parameters of the Haemopoietic Tissue of Rabbits. IAEA: N. p., 1968. Web.
Izak, G., Karsai, A., Eylon, L., & Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel)]. Radiation-Induced Changes in Some Biochemical Parameters of the Haemopoietic Tissue of Rabbits. IAEA.
Izak, G., Karsai, A., Eylon, L., and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel)]. 1968. "Radiation-Induced Changes in Some Biochemical Parameters of the Haemopoietic Tissue of Rabbits." IAEA.
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title = {Radiation-Induced Changes in Some Biochemical Parameters of the Haemopoietic Tissue of Rabbits}
author = {Izak, G., Karsai, A., Eylon, L., and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (Israel)]}
abstractNote = {Bone-marrow and reticulocyte suspensions obtained from rabbits following massive haemorrhage were irradiated by a cobalt source with doses ranging between 1000-10 000 rad. The radiation-induced injury to the nucleic acid synthesizing apparatus and to the haem-and protein-producing activity of the bone-marrow cells, as well as the damage to the haemoglobin synthesizing system of the reticulocytes, was investigated shortly after exposure. The amino-acid incorporation activity into protein was substantially reduced, together with all the other parameters measured in the bone-marrow cells, while globin synthesis was not affected at the same radiation dose in the reticulocytes. On the other hand, incorporation of haem precursors into protoporphyrin and of radio iron into protoporphyrin was inhibited both in the nucleated erythroid precursors and in the reticulocytes, more so in the former than in the latter. The implications of these findings and possible means to repair the biochemical injury are discussed. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1968}
month = {Aug}
}