Abstract Radioactivity, whether natural or artificial, today constitutes a significant segment in the process of protecting human and animal health. Natural radioactivity is an integral part our ecological system, so it has long been present food we eat. However, intensive industrial processes some areas have disturbed balance thus introduced into environment radionuclides quantities that can a...

Radioactive microspheres were used to estimate the changes in regional myocardial blood flow occurring during acute myocardial ischemia. Carbonized 15-fj, spheres were injected into the left atrium of 28 open-chest dogs and the radioactivity of selected areas determined after sacrifice. Acute occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery produced a significant diminution in the proportion of...

Sulfuryl fluoride (SO(2)F(2)) is a structural fumigant gas used to control drywood termites and wood-boring beetles. The pharmacokinetics and metabolism of inhaled SO(2)F(2) were evaluated in male Fischer-344 rats exposed to 30 or 300 ppm (35)S-labeled SO(2)F(2) for 4 h. Blood, urine and feces were collected during and after the exposures and analyzed for radioactivity, (35)S-labeled fluorosulf...

The tissue distribution of two 14C drugs were quantitatively compared using the techniques of whole body autoradioluminography (WBAL) and radiometry. Quantitative analysis of tissue radioactivity in whole body cryosections was accomplished from storage phosphor images using the MicroComputer Imaging Device. After obtaining whole body sections from four frozen rats and three frozen ferrets, each...

The pharmacokinetics, mass balance, tissue distribution, and metabolism of Co 102862 was investigated in rats after a single oral dose. [(14)C]Co 102862 showed multiexponential pharmacokinetics in rat plasma with an extensive distribution phase. After p.o. administration (approximately 10 mg/kg), the half-lives were long for total radioactivity compared with unchanged Co 102862. Profiles of rat...

BACKGROUND The economic value of unconventional natural gas resources has stimulated rapid globalization of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, natural radioactivity found in the large volumes of "produced fluids" generated by these technologies is emerging as an international environmental health concern. Current assessments of the radioactivity concentration in liquid waste...

We investigate radioactivity from the decay sequence of Ti in young supernova remnants (SNRs), Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and SN 1987A. It is shown by a linear analysis that ionization of Ti, a pure electron capture decay isotope, affects the radioactivity contradistinctively in these two SNRs: Ionization of Ti to H-like and He-like states enhances its present radioactivity in Cas A, while such high-...

Examination of brain myelin proteins by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis followed by fluorography clearly showed that both proteolipid protein (PLP) and DM-20 were acylated 24 h after the intracerebral injection of 30-day-old rats with C3H]palmitic acid. The radioactivity associated with PLP remained after purification, re-electrophoresis, and fluorography. Most of the radioactivity a...

background: turkey, especially the northern part of it, was one of the countries which were contaminated by the chernobyl accident.  rize is a city located in the northeastern district of turkey which was heavily influenced by the chernobyl nuclear accident. materials and methods: in this study, the activity concentrations of natural (226ra, 232th, 40k) and artificial (137cs) were measurements ...

a study on natural radioactivity in virgin and agricultural soil samples collected from sungai petani was conducted using high-purity germanium. the mean activity concentrations of 226ra, 232th, and 40k in virgin soils were 51.06±5.83, 78.44±6.42, and 125.66±7.26 bq kg−1, respectively, while those in agricultural soils were 80.63±5.78, 116.87±7.87, and 200.66±18.24 bq kg−1, respectively. the co...