Published April 1989
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Journal article
Histopathology of lungs after incorporation of plutonium 238
Description
In experiments with albino mongrel female rats a study was made of the response of the lungs to a single intratracheal injection of nitrate of 238Pu (0.4-740 kBq/kg). The nature of the inflammatory disease, the lymphoid tissue condition, pneumosclerosis occurence, and the frequency and spectrum of lung tumors were shown to be a function of dose of the radionuclide administered
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Russian)
- Гистопатология легких при инкорпорации плутония-239
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radiobiologiya
- Journal Volume
- 29
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Radiobiologiya.
- Journal Page Range
- 202-206
- ISSN
- 0033-8192
- CODEN
- RADOA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Russian Federation
- Country of Input or Organization
- USSR
- INIS RN
- 21018925
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; FEMALES; INTRATRACHEAL ADMINISTRATION; LUNGS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM 238; RATS; SINGLE INTAKE; TIME DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; DISEASES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTAKE; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; NUCLEI; ORGANS; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RODENTS; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO; TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES