Accession Number:

AD0691870

Title:

RADIOTOXINS: THEIR NATURE AND ROLE IN THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH

Personal Author(s):

• Kuzin, A. M.

Report Date:

1968-12-17

Pagination or Media Count:

317.0

Abstract:

The book furnishes theoretical and experimental data on the formation of toxins in irradiated organisms and with the nature and role of radiotoxins in the biological effects of ionizing radiation. The quantitative relationships for the formation of toxins, their chemical nature, and a wide spectrum of their radiomimetic properties have moved the problem of toxins to the center of attention in the study of initial and activation mechanisms of the biological effects of ionizing radiation. The nature and properties of secondary radiotoxins which are formed with radiation sickness are investigated from the point of view of pathogenesis and radiation-disease therapy.

Descriptors:

• *TOXINS AND ANTITOXINS
• *RADIATION EFFECTS
• CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
• LIPIDS
• CHOLINES
• PROTONS
• DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDS
• GAMMA RAYS
• YEASTS
• TRANSLATIONS
• RADIATION SICKNESS
• NUCLEI(BIOLOGY)
• QUINONES
• RADIATION INJURIES
• HISTAMINE
• PLANTS(BOTANY)
• CANCER
• AMINO ACIDS
• PATHOLOGY
• ERYTHROCYTES
• CELLS(BIOLOGY)
• RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
• POISONS
• GENETICS
• NEUTRONS

Subject Categories:

• Radiobiology
• Toxicology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE