A possibility to predict the severity of individual damage following the exposure to supralethal radiation doses. Prediction of working ability of irradiated rats and dogs by response to pre-exposure hypobaric load

In experiments on rats and dogs exposed to electron or gamma-neutron radiation at doses which cause intestinal and cerebral forms of radiation disease, hypobaric hypoxia used as an unconventional test of animals reactivity has enabled the relationship between reactivity and radiosensitivity to be established. Higher post-radiation working capacity is observed in animals with less pronounced changes during a barotest. The good coincidence of experimental data with the expected result is up to 70%, rising if a set parameters for one index or the total sum of indices are used