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  • 标题:Dosimetric implications of pulmonary macrophage clusters observed within lungs of rats that have inhaled enriched UO2 particles.
  • 作者:K J Morris ; C L Barker ; A L Batchelor
  • 期刊名称:Environmental Health Perspectives
  • 印刷版ISSN:0091-6765
  • 电子版ISSN:1552-9924
  • 出版年度:1992
  • 卷号:97
  • 页码:201
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:OCR Subscription Services Inc
  • 摘要:Twenty-four Fischer 344 rats were exposed to enriched uranium dioxide (UO2) aerosols to give a mean initial lung burden of 291 +/- 89 (SD) micrograms. Groups of rats were killed at 1, 7, 180, 360, 540, and 720 days post-inhalation (PI). Their lungs were fixed and inflated. Sections cut from all five lung lobes were used to prepare CR-39 neutron-induced 235U fission fragment autoradiographs. A single traverse across a CR-39 autoradiograph of a tissue section, from the left lung of all the rats, was made using a motorized microscopic stage. The traverse was divided into 10 fields. The track counts per field were used to test for homogeneity of track distribution and to assess if there was any tendency for tracks to be related to the peripheral region of the lung. Full raster scans across the entire tissue image were made on left lung autoradiographs from two animals killed at each time point to assess the homogeneity of fission fragment track distribution throughout the entire section. There was no evidence of any temporal change in the proportion of tracks associated with the lung periphery. At all time points PI, the track distribution was significantly nonhomogeneous, suggesting a nonuniform pattern of tissue irradiation from the 234U alpha particles. At time points from 180 to 720 days PI, large clusters of macrophages were observed in some of the sections taken from all five lung lobes. The total number of macrophage clusters increased with time PI. These macrophage clusters produced many 235U fission fragment tracks within the CR-39 autoradiographs.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (3.4M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208
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