[Aerospace radiobiology: the problems and the colleagues (on the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine)].
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The monograph has been dedicated to the analysis of structural and functional changes in the central nervous system of the experimental animals exposed to the isolated and combined effects of space flight factors. There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors. The synergistic, antagonistic and cumulative (simple addition) effects of the investigated stressors along with the radiation factor on the CNS have been stated. This review is prescribed for the specialists in space biology, for physiologists, pathophysiologists, biochemists, radiobiologists and physicians.
In mature rats an area on the head has been subjected to a single radiation for 1.5 sec with microwaves in the continuous regimen of generation, frequency 2.4 GHz level of the specific absorbed power 5 W/g, that is accompanied with appearance of convulsions. Under anesthesia specimens of the superficial layer of the cerebral superlateral part are taken and subjected to electron microscopical investigation. Immediately after radiation and in 2 h certain disorders in microcirculation and reactive changes of mitochondria in perikaryons, axons, dendrites, synapses of the neurons and in gliocytes are revealed. The mitochondrial changes are designated as "edematous". In 2 and 6 h in karyoplasm of some neurons membranous structures appear; they are interpreted as a result of heat denaturation of the nuclear proteins. In synapses, together with lesions of mitochondria, synaptic complexes undergo destruction and osmiophilic substance is accumulated in the subsynaptic zone along the whole length of the contact. In one day, essential destructive changes are revealed as severe lesions of some neurons, vacuolization and destruction of mitochondria, localized in all the structures. Pathogenesis of the neurological disturbances is based on disturbances of interneuronal interactions, connected with an immediate heat effect of the electromagnetic radiation on the structures responsible for the synaptic transmission and with a rapidly developing tissue hypoxia as a consequence of microcirculatory disturbance and a sharp inhibition of energetic metabolism.
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In the experiments on 2200 mice the thresholds of powder density (PD) and time of irradiation were defined, when the death level did not exceed 0.1%. Dependence between the speed ratio of the destruction/regeneration and PD approached the exponential function. The functional dependences obtained quantitatively characterize the adaptive abilities of the mouse organism exposed to microwave irradiation.
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As demonstrated in experiments staged on dogs mexamine hydrochloride, used in a dose of 20 mg/kg by the intraperiotoneal route 1.5 hours before the onset of acute hypoxic hypoxia increases the resistance of the organism to oxigen deficiency. Mexamine is capable of significantly intensity hypothermy in dogs during acute hypoxic hypoxia.
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Widespread application of video terminals (VT) has led to accumulating some unambiguous data on harmful effect of electromagnetic and electrical fields on the health. An analysis indicates that the level of electromagnetic and electrical fields is below permissible limits. IRPA/INIC concludes that the electromagnetic effects on VT users health are unharmful. However, the problem of VT use is an integrated one and involves not only radiation but ergonomic aspects and in this context requires further studies.
Based on an analysis of the latest data on the problem of pharmacologic defense, the pro and contra scientific arguments of using pharmacochemical countermeasures to radiation damages of the brain are discussed in succession. A comparative characteristic of positive and negative effects of countermeasures possessing various neurotropic properties is presented. A general scheme of searching for the means of pharmacologic correction of radiocerebral syndrome involving the following stages: pathophysiologic analysis of cerebral disorders; selection of behaviorally significant (psychophysiologic) criteria; search for pharmacochemical correction means; experimental animals studies with extrapolating their results to a man; radiocerebral syndrome simulation (pharmacologic, physical and chemical); field tests; decision-making (medico-biological and formalized approaches) is presented. "Pyramid of complexity" of radiocerebral effects extrapolation from the animals to a man to suit an hierarchy of the biological structures is presented. The effectiveness of conditionally-quantitative relationships of the drugs of prolonged and short-term effect as applied to various radiation syndromes (erythropoietic, gastrointestinal and cerebral) is discussed.
The activity of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) in lymphocytes of peripheral blood of AKR mice was measured in response to intraperitoneal injection of epinephrine hydrochloride at a dose of 1 mg/kg. SDH reactions to epinephrine were of two types: increase or decrease of activity. The type of reaction depended on the initial enzyme level. The decrease of epinephrine activation of SDH in lymphocytes was found to be correlated with the age of animals and hematological manifestations of hemoblastosis they developed. The percentage of cells with a high SDH activity in hemoblastotic animals was correlated with the count of prolymphocytes and blast cells in peripheral blood.