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Tolerance to the Combined Effects of Hypothermia, Anoxia, and Ionizing Radiation. An experimental study on rats was undertaken in order to evaluate to what extent severe anoxia, made tolerable by virtue of hypothermia, may prove of protective value against lethal effects of ionizing radiation. A protective factor approaching 3 proved to be obtainable by the combination of deep but spontaneously reversible hypothermia and a severe but easily tolerable anoxia, provoked by tracheal occlusion. Terminal respiratory movements were recorded and changes of brain ATP, ADP, AMP, creatine phosphate and lactate levels were followed during the course of anoxia, so that degrees of protection, afforded by different phases of the post-occlusion period, could be correlated with biochemical and physiological parameters.

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Tolérance aux effets combinés de Phypothermie, de l’anoxie et des rayonnements ionisants. Une étude expérimental a été entreprise sur des rats, afin d’évaluer dans quelle mesure une forte anoxie, rendue tolérable grâce à l’hypothermie, peut s’averer efficace comme moyen de protection contre les effets mortels des rayonnements ionisants. II a été prouve que l’on pouvait obtenir un coefficient de protection proche de 3 en combinant une hypothermic profonde mais spontanément reversible et une anoxie forte, mais facilement tolérable, provoquée par occlusion trachéenne. Les mouvements respiratoires terminaux ont été enregistrés, et les variations des niveaux de lactate, de phosphocreatine, d’AMP, d’ADP, et d’ATP du cerveau ont été suivies au cours de l’anoxie, de telle sorte que les degrés de protection, fournis par diverses phases de la période d’asphyxie, ont pu être corrélés avec des paramètres biochimiques et physiologiques.

Аннотации

Толерантность к комбинированному воздействию гипотермии, аноксии и ионизирующей радиации. Для выяснения, в какой степени сильная аноксия, переносимая благодаря гипотермии, может служить защитой против смертоносного воздействия ионизирующей радиации, авторами проведены опыты на крысах. При этом удалось достигнуть фактора защиты, приближающегося к трем, путем сочетания глубокой, но спонтанно обратимой гипотермии с сильной, но легко переносимой аноксией, вызываемой пережатием трахеи. В течении аноксии регистрировались конечные дыхательные движения и наблюдались изменения уровней аденозинтрифосфата, аденозиндифосфата, аденозинмонофосфата, креатин-фосфата и лактата мозга, так что различные степени защиты, обеспечиваемые отдельными фазами периода асфиксии могли быть увязаны с биохимическими и физиологическими параметрами.

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Andjus, R.K., Matic, O., Savkovic, N. (1967). Tolerance to the Combined Effects of Hypothermia, Anoxia, and Ionizing Radiation. In: Bjurstedt, H. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Basic Environmental Problems of Man in Space. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3032-2_8

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