Biology, radiation

Bames, D.W.H., Bishop, M., Harrison, G.E. and Sutton, A. 1961 Comparison of the plasma concentration and urinary excretion of strontium and calcium in man. InternationalJournal of Radiation Biology 3 637-646. 

Von Sonntag, C. (1987). The Chemical Basis of Radiation Biology , Taylor and Francis, London. 

Moskalev JI, Buldakov LA, Lyaginskaya AM, et al. 1969. Experimental study of radionuclide transfer through the placenta and their biological action on the fetus. In Radiation biology of the fetal and juvenile Mmmmal Richland, WA Hanford Biology Symposium, 153-160. 

E. G. McRae and M. Kasha, in Physical Processes in Radiation Biology, L. Augen-stein, R. Mason, and B. Rosenberg, eds., Academic Press (1964), pp. 23-42. 

Richard C. Honeycutt, Ph.D., was born in Newport News, VA, in 1945. He attended Anderson University in Anderson, IN, from 1963 to 1967 and earned an A.B. in Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 1971 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1971 to 1973 at the Smithsonian Institution s Radiation Biology Laboratory. Dr. Honeycutt worked as a Senior Chemist at Rohm and Haas Company from 1973 to 1976 and as a Senior Metabolism Chemist at Ciba Geigy from 1976 to 1989. Currently, he is President of the Hazard Evaluation and Regulatory Affairs Company, Inc., which he founded in 1990, and is an analytical biochemist and field research specialist/consultant engaged in exposure assessment of pesticides to humans and the environment. 

Edwards, A.A., R.J. Purrott, J.S. Prosser, and D.C. Lloyd, The Induction of Chromosome Aberrations in Human Lymphocytes by Alpha-Radiation, Internat. J. Radiation Biology 38 83-91 (1980). 

Frankenberg-Schwager, M., D. Frankenberg, D. Blocher, and C. Adamczyk, The Linear Ralationship Between DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Radiation Dose (30 MeV Electrons) is Converted Into a Quadratic Function by Cellular Repair, Internat. J. Radiation Biology 37 207-212 (1980). 

The quantitative aspects of track reactions are involved some details will be presented in Chapter 7. The LET effect is known for H2 and H202 yields in aqueous radiation chemistry. The yields of secondary reactions that depend on either the molecular or the radical yield are affected similarly. Thus, the yield of Fe3+ ion in the Fricke dosimeter system and the initiation yield of radiation-induced polymerization decrease with LET. Numerous examples of LET effects are known in radiation chemistry (Allen, 1961 Falconer and Burton, 1963 Burns and Barker, 1965) and in radiation biology (Lamerton, 1963). 

Forster, Th. (1968), in Energetics and Mechanisms in Radiation Biology (G. O. Phillips ed.), p. 183, Academic Press, London. 

Shizgal et al. (1989) have listed a large number of processes that require an understanding of electron thermalization in the gas phase. These range from radiation physics and chemistry to radiation biology, and connect such diverse fields as electron transport, laser systems, nuclear fusion, and plasma chemistry. Certainly, this list is not exhaustive. 

Chemical effects from the absorption of charged-particle irradiation were observed almost immediately following the discoveries of X-rays and the electron in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The field, though, remained unnamed until 1942, when Milton Burton christened it radiation chemistry. At present, it has developed into a vigorous discipline embracing radiation physics on one hand and radiation biology on the other. The purpose of this book is to give a coherent account of the development of this field with stress on the fundamental aspects. 

Larson, K. H., Neel, J, W., Hawthorne, H. A., Mork, H. M., Rowland, R. H., Baurmash, L., Lindberg, R. G., Olafson, J. H. and Kowalewsky, B. W. (1966). Distribution, Characteristics and Biotic Availability of Fallout, Operation Plumbbob, Report No. WT-1488 (Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, also National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

Matsusaka, N. J., Inaba, R., Ichikawa, M., Ikeda, M. and Oikubo, Y. (1969). Some special features of nuclide metabolism in juvenile mammals, page 217 in Radiation Biology of the Fetal and Juvenile Mammal, AEC Symposium Series No. 17, Report No. CONF-690501 (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

Palumbo, R. F., Donaldson, L. R., Barnes, R. N., Bonham, K., Casey, H. W., Engstrom, D. E., Gessel, S. P., Held, E. E., Hines, N. O., Mathisen, 0. A., Nakatani, R. E., Olson, P. R. and Welander, A. D. (1963). Radionuclide Content of Foodstuffs Collected at Christmas Island and at Other Islands of the Central Pacific During Operation Dominic, 1962, Report No. UWFL-87 (Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington, Seattle). 

Welander, A. D. and Palumbo, R. F. (1963). Radionuclide Content of Oceanic Fish, Plankton, and Water in the Vicinity of Christmas Island, March Through August 1962, Report No. UWFL-88 (Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington). 

Hagen, U. 1990. Molecular radiation biology future aspects. Radiation Environ. Biophys. 29 315-322. Hakanson, L. and T. Andersson. 1992. Remedial measures against radioactive caesium in Swedish lake fish after Chernobyl. Aquat. Sci. 54 141-164. 

E.G. McRae and M. Kasha, Physical Progress in Radiation Biology, A.G. 

Revell, S.H. (1974). The breakage-and-reunion theory and the exchange theory for chromosome aberrations induced by ionizing radiations A short history. In Advances in Radiation Biology (Lett, J.T. and Zelle, M., Eds.). Vol. 4, Academic Press, New York, pp. 367-415. 

Nonpolar Systems. Most of the early theoretical studies on radiation action were carried out on water and aqueous solutions. This was a consequence not only of Its Importance In radiation biology but also of the greater amount of experimental data and the simplicity of Its radiation chemical reactions as compared with organic systems. Recently, however, more studies on non-polar systems such as alkanes have appeared (24). It Is a long step to solid polymers but methods are being continually refined. 

Kasha M. (1991) Energy, Charge Transfer, and Proton Transfer in Molecular Composite Systems, in Glass W. A. and Varma M. N. (Eds), Physical and Chemical Mechanisms in Molecular Radiation Biology, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 231-255. 

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