X-rays effect on the proximal tubes of mice kidney (Mus musculus). Ultra-structural study

The kidney alterations in mice it was submitted to total irradiation was studied, trying to determine which lesions were produced and in which sequence its occur. Knowing that irradiation, since in low doses, decrease the organism survival, since anticipating the normal aging, and how it occur and, in event of it occur if such alterations are qualitative and/or quantitatively related with that occur in aging. (L.M.J.)