Variations in Survival Time after Whole-Body Radiation at Two Times of Day

25 January 1963

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 139 (3552), 349
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3552.349

Abstract

Rats, anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital, given 900 roentgens of x-radiation over the entire body, survived more than 130 days when the radiation was given in the morning. The same dosage killed all the animals within 13 days when the radiation was given at night.

Keywords

RADIATION INJURY, EXPERIMENTAL

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