Chromosomal aberration analysis in peripheral lymphocytes of radiation workers

Title: Chromosomal aberration analysis in peripheral lymphocytes of radiation workers

Author: Abbas N. Balasem, Abdul-Sahib K. Ali, Hashim S. Mosa, Khattab O. Hussain

Reference: Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects, Volume 271, Issue 3, June 1992, Pages 209–211

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-1161(92)90015-E

Keywords: Chromosomal aberrations; Biological dosimetry; Cytogenetics; Lymphocytes

Abstract: Chromosomal aberration analyses were performed in two groups of radiation workers and in a group of healthy controls. Although the level of exposure was below the accepted annual limit of 50 mSv, the yields of chromosome fragments and of total aberrations were significantly higher in the radiation workers than in the controls. However, the frequencies of dicentric and ring chromosomes in the radiation workers were not significantly different from those in the control

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The effect on lymphocyte chromosomes of additional radiation burden due to fallout in Salzburg (Austria) from the Chernobyl accident

Title: The effect on lymphocyte chromosomes of additional radiation burden due to fallout in Salzburg (Austria) from the Chernobyl accident

Author: J. Pohl-Rüling, O. Haas, A. Brogger, G. Obe, H. Lettner, F. Daschil, C. Atzmüller, D. Lloyd, R. Kubiak, A.T. Natarajan

Reference: Mutation Research Letters, Volume 262, Issue 3, March 1991, Pages 209–217

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-7992(91)90024-X

Keywords: Chromosome aberration; Chernobyl fallout; Radiation burden

Abstract: An investigation has been carried out to determine whether chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes reflect the elevated environmental dose of low-LET ionising radiation, mainly due to radiocesium from Chernobyl fallout, to the population living in Salzburg city. Sixteen volunteers were sampled 1 year after the Chernobyl accident. Two of these persons were also sampled before the accident, and then in 1988 and 1990. The radioactive environment of Salzburg city and the radiation burden of its inhabitants have been frequently determined before and after the accident. The Cs-137 content of the volunteers was measured by whole-body counting.

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Radiological effects on populations of Oligochaeta in the Chernobyl contaminated zone

Title: Radiological effects on populations of Oligochaeta in the Chernobyl contaminated zone

Author: V.G. Tsytsugina, G.G. Polikarpov

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 66, Issues 1–2, 2003, Pages 141-154

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0265-931X(02)00120-0

Keywords: Oligochaeta; The Chernobyl NPP accident; Reproduction; Chromosome aberrations

Abstract: A detailed investigation of 3 populations of Oligochaete species (Dero obtusa, Nais pseudobtusa and Nais pardalis) has been carried out in a contaminated lake of the close-in Chernobyl zone and in a control lake. Hydrochemical indices and concentrations of heavy metals, chloro-organic compounds and ⁹⁰Sr in bottom sediments have been measured. Absorbed doses were calculated on the basis of the results of radiochemical analysis and assessed directly with thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD). Stimulation of paratomous division (asexual reproduction) was found in one species of worm (D. obtusa), and activation of sexual reproduction in the two other species studied. An increase in the amount of cytogenetic damage in the somatic cells of worms from the contaminated lake was found and an attempt was made to assess the relative contributions of radiation and chemical exposure on the basis of analyses of inter-cellular aberration distributions and the types of chromosome aberrations observed in the cells.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X02001200

Bioindication of the anthropogenic effects on micropopulations of Pinus sylvestris, L. in the vicinity of a plant for the storage and processing of radioactive waste and in the Chernobyl NPP zone.

Keywords: Bioindication; Pinus sylvestris L.; Chromosome aberrations; Chernobyl accident

Abstract: Results of a comparative analysis of the frequency and spectrum of cytogenetic anomalies are presented for reproductive (seeds) and vegetative (needles) samples taken from Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.) micropopulations growing at sites with differing levels of radioactive contamination in the Chernobyl NPP 30 km zone, and at the location of a facility for the processing and storage of radioactive wastes (the ‘Radon’ LWPE, near the town of Sosnovy Bor in the Leningrad Region). The data obtained indicate the presence of genotoxic contaminants in the environment of the tree micropopulations. Chemical toxins make the main contribution to the environmental contamination in the Sosnovy Bor area as compared with the influence of ionising radiation in the Chernobyl 30 km zone. The higher radioresistance of seeds of Scotch pine growing on the area of the ‘Radon’ LWPE and in the centre of Sosnovy Bor town was revealed with acute γ-radiation.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X02001224

Bioindication-based comparison of anthropogenic pollution near a radioactive-waste processing facility and in the 30-km control area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

• Title: Bioindication-based comparison of anthropogenic pollution near a radioactive-waste processing facility and in the 30-km control area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Author: Geras’kin, S. A. / Zimina, L. M. / Dikarev, V. G. / Dikareva, N. S. / Zimin, V. L. / Vasil’ev, D. V. / Blinova, L. D. / (…) / Nesterov, E. B.

Reference: Russian Journal of Ecology, 31 (4), p.274-277, Jul 2000

doi: 10.1007/BF02764060

Keywords: radioactive and chemical pollutants, ionizing radiation, biological test systems, chromosome aberrations, Pinus sylvestris

Abstract:

URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02764060