the adaptive response (ar) is a phenomenon by which cells exposure to sublethal doses of dna-damaging agents (non-mutagenic dose of chemical or radiation), known as conditioning treatment (ct), leads to increased resistance to a subsequent exposure to a higher dose of the same or other agents, known as challenge treatment (cr). the adaptive response (ar) induced by radiation in human lymphocyte...

Blazar emission of gamma rays and cosmic ray production of gamma rays in gas-rich clusters have been proposed recently as alternative sources of the high energy extragalactic diffuse gamma ray background radiation. We show that these sources also produce a very different high energy extragalactic diffuse neutrino background radiation. This neutrino background may be detected by the new generati...

background: this study has been undertaken to find out the possible radioprotective potential of the alstonia scholaris extract (ase). materials and methods: for experimental study, healthy swiss albino male mice were selected from an inbred colony and divided in four groups. group i (normal) did not receive any treatment. group ii was orally supplemented ase once daily at the dose of 100 mg/ k...

Background: Over the past few years, the rapid use of high frequency electromagnetic fields like mobile phones has raised global concerns about the negative health effects of its use. Adaptive response is the ability of a cell or tissue to better resist stress damage by prior exposure to a lesser amount of stress. This study aimed to assess whether radiofrequency radiation can induce adaptive r...

Introduction Radioactive materials naturally exist in the world. Indeed, approximately 82% of human-absorbed radiation doses, which are out of human control, arise from natural sources of radiation including cosmic, terrestrial, and exposure through inhalation or ingestion. Thus, the aim of the present study was to estimate health risk, as well as the effective and organ doses from naturally oc...

Background: Ramsar (Mazandran province) is known for its extremely high levels of natural background radiation. Although no excess cancer rate is reported in these areas by epidemiological studies, the study of tumor markers in the inhabitants of these areas may shed some light on the impact of high levels of background radiation on cancer induction. Materials and Methods: The level of backgrou...

An extensive study was undertaken to Investigate on the overall film badge service performance with which occupational radiation, exposures are reported In Iran, The study involved the analysis of film badges exposed to x-and gamma rays and beta particles. For test exposures, x-rays between 60 and 140 KVPCo-60 gamma radiation and Sr-90 beta particles were used. The actual delivered dose equival...

In the discussion that follows, we assume that gamma rays are the radiation of interest. The principles discussed also apply to monoenergetic x rays; in many cases of concern in x-ray shielding, however, the photons are produced in the bremsstrahlung process that yields a wide and continuous distribution of photon energies. Specialized shielding approaches have been developed to carry out shiel...

The tripeptide glutathione (L-y-glutamyl-L-cysteinylglycine) (GSH) is the predominant low-molecular-weight thiol in many organisms and has been proposed to protect cells from oxidative damage such as that formed by H202 and ionizing radiations (19). Escherichia coli deficient in GSH because of mutations in the gshA gene was found previously (3) to exhibit normal resistance to X irradiation in t...