Background: Man-made  radionuclides, which are present in environment, have been created by human activities and added to the inventory of natural radionuclides for example 3H, 131I, 129I, 137Cs, 90Sr and 239Pu, in spite of the amount added is little compared to natural quantities. The aim of this study is to estimate the levels of radiological doses in the soil samples collected from different...

Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is recommended as prophylaxis against infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). However, since the optimal dose, the dosing interval, and the mechanisms of action are not well-defined, we studied the effects on CGD neutrophil (PMN) functions ex vivo of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). Evaluations were made on oxidative capacity, measured by super...

Background: The trabecular bone changes in the tibia of C3H/HeN mice were measured 12 weeks after whole body irradiation with various doses of fast neutrons (0-2.4 Gy) or 137Cs-generated gamma-rays (0-6 Gy). Materials and Methods: Serum calcium, phosphorus, estradiol concentration and alkaline phosphatase activity were measured. Tibiae were anal...

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 119 instructed institutions to use a low-dose threshold of 10% or a region of interest determined by the jaw setting when they collected gamma analysis quality assurance (QA) data for the planar dose distribution. However, there are no clinical data to quantitatively demonstrate the impact of the low-dose threshold on the gamma index...

Antiradical activity and free radicals before after gamma-treatment of beebread were investigated by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. A narrow signal the intensity which increased with dose was assigned to O-centred induced gamma rays. They are stable for 120 days irradiation. The irradiation effect on antioxidant potential content phenolic compounds studied. It found that to...

Material presented at a NASA-sponsored workshop on risk models for exposure conditions relevant to prolonged space flight are described in this paper. Analyses used mortality data from experiments conducted at Argonne National Laboratory on the long-term effects of external whole-body irradiation on B6CF1 mice by 60Co gamma rays and fission neutrons delivered as a single exposure or protracted ...

A new method was developed based on calculating the ahsorption coefficients, selfabsorption coefficients and transmission coefîlcients of the gamma-photons emitted by different radioisotopes for evaluating gamma dose equivalent rates, at 1 meter from varions cylindrical radioactive solution sources utilized in medicine, in a biological tissue. Resnlts obtained were compared with data given in l...

EPR spectra of alanine dosimeters irradiated by gamma-rays and alpha-particles were measured at different microwave power. The decomposed into three components corresponding to stable radiation-induced radicals. Different ratio the was obtained for gamma- alpha-irradiated alanine. observed effect can be used discrimination contribution alpha- gamma-radiation in mixed radiation field. That may u...

MOUSSA, H. R., 2011. Low dose of gamma irradiation enhanced drought tolerance in soybean. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 17: 63-72 Drought stress is the main limiting factor of soybean production. However, no work has been done on how application of low-dose of gamma rays could help to overcome water deficits during critical stages of soybean development. Gamma rays at doses 0.0 and 20 Gray (Gy), from a...