The effect of X-ray on the distribution of biogenic monoamines in the brain tissue

The role of biogenic monoamines in immuno-adaptation reaction of animal organism to radiation, in increase of organism radiostability and in studying damage effect of ionizing radiation is investigated. Rat brain was an object of observations. Rats were once X-irradiated at the dose of 0.8 and 1.2 Gr. Assay samples were taken in 10 minutes, 2, 24, 48 hours, 5 and 7 days after radiation. It was clarified that noticeable variations of serotonin, adrenalin and dofamin content were observed in first hours after radiation in hemisphere cortex, medulla oblongata, hypothalamus and cerebellum. The observed phenomena ever more aggravate with progress of radiation sickness. Character and depth of shifts in monoamine distribution are not found to depend on radiation dose only but on chemical structure of neurons of the investigated section as well. The results of studies permit to consider quantitative shifts in distribution of biogenic amines in brain tissue after radiation as one of the factors promoting increase of endogenic defence resources and increasing stability of the irradiated organism. Besides, it is supposed that these shifts result from local distortion of metabolic processes in brain tissue and general somatic shifts progressing at acute radiation sickness