Title: Distribution of radionuclides in the environment in northern Italy after the Chernobyl accident.
Author: Berzero, A / Borroni, P A / Oddone, M / Crespi, V C / Genova, N / Meloni, S
Reference: The Analyst, 117 (3), p.533-537, Mar 1992
Keywords:
Abstract: Soon after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the air-pumping stations in Pavia (northern Italy) were alerted. In a few days, a rapid increase in radionuclide concentration in air particulates was observed. Consequently, an environmental radioactivity monitoring programme was started in which several matrices such as soil, grass, vegetables and cows’ milk were subjected to direct gamma-ray spectrometry. The radioactivity distribution and its variation with time is presented, discussed and compared with other available data. Detection limits, precision and accuracy are also reported, and depth profiles in soils for 137Cs are presented and correlated with soil quality parameters. A survey of environmental radioactivity in soil, in a search for residual Chernobyl fallout, was carried out and a map of the 137Cs distribution over a large area in northern Italy is presented and discussed.
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580396?dopt=Abstract
Title: Soybeans grown in the Chernobyl area produce fertile seeds that have increased heavy metal resistance and modified carbon metabolism.
Author: Klubicová, Katarína / Danchenko, Maksym / Skultety, Ludovit / Berezhna, Valentyna V / Uvackova, Lubica / Rashydov, Namik M / Hajduch, Martin
Reference: PloS one, 7 (10), p.e48169, Jan 2012
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048169
Keywords:
Abstract: Plants grow and reproduce in the radioactive Chernobyl area, however there has been no comprehensive characterization of these activities. Herein we report that life in this radioactive environment has led to alteration of the developing soybean seed proteome in a specific way that resulted in the production of fertile seeds with low levels of oil and β-conglycinin seed storage proteins. Soybean seeds were harvested at four, five, and six weeks after flowering, and at maturity from plants grown in either non-radioactive or radioactive plots in the Chernobyl area. The abundance of 211 proteins was determined. The results confirmed previous data indicating that alterations in the proteome include adaptation to heavy metal stress and mobilization of seed storage proteins. The results also suggest that there have been adjustments to carbon metabolism in the cytoplasm and plastids, increased activity of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and decreased condensation of malonyl-acyl carrier protein during fatty acid biosynthesis.
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110204?dopt=Abstract
Title: VERTICAL MIGRATION OF RADIONUCLIDES IN THE VICINITY OF THE CHERNOBYL CONFINEMENT SHELTER
Author: Farfan, E. / Jannik, T. / Marra, J.
Reference: HEALTH PHYSICS JOURNAL, Oct 2011
Keywords: Chernobyl; radionuclide transport; fallout, migration
Abstract: Studies on vertical migration of Chernobyl-origin radionuclides in the 5-km zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) in the area of the Red Forest experimental site were completed. Measurements were made by gamma spectrometric methods using high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors with beryllium windows. Alpha-emitting isotopes of plutonium were determined by the measurement of the x-rays from their uranium progeny. The presence of {sup 60}Co, {sup 134,137}Cs, {sup 154,155}Eu, and {sup 241}Am in all soil layers down to a depth of 30 cm was observed. The presence of {sup 137}Cs and {sup 241}Am were noted in the area containing automorphous soils to a depth of 60 cm. In addition, the upper soil layers at the test site were found to contain {sup 243}Am and {sup 243}Cm. Over the past ten years, the {sup 241}Am/{sup 137}Cs ratio in soil at the experimental site has increased by a factor of 3.4, nearly twice as much as would be predicted based solely on radioactive decay. This may be due to ‘fresh’ fallout emanating from the ChNPP Confinement Shelter.
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=1024190
Title: Radioactive contamination of the environment with241Am as a result of the chernobyl accident
Author: Ivanov, E. A. / Ramzina, T. V. / Kham’yanov, L. P. / Vasil’chenko, V. N. / Korotkov, V. T. / Nosovskii, A. V. / Oskolkov, B. Ya.
Reference: Atomic Energy, 77 (2), p.629-634, Aug 1994
DOI: 10.1007/BF02407438
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02407438
Title: Rearrangements of NTRK1 gene in papillary thyroid carcinoma
Author: Greco, A. / Miranda, C. / Pierotti, M.A.
Reference: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 321 (1), p.44-49, May 2010
doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.10.009
Keywords: NTRK1; Gene rearrangement; Papillary thyroid tumor
Abstract: …starting from papillary thyroid tumor DNA. Transforming…isolated from papillary thyroid tumors are reported in Table…radioiodine released from the Chernobyl reactor a high rate of…event in the process of thyroid carcinogenesis. Transgenic…penetrance of thyroid cancer and shortens the latency…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303720709005565
Title: The Chernobyl Tissue Bank A Repository for Biomaterial and Data Used in Integrative and Systems Biology Modeling the Human Response to Radiation
Author: Geraldine Thomas, Kristian Unger, Marko Krznaric, Angela Galpine, Jackie Bethel, Christopher Tomlinson, Mark Woodbridge, Sarah Butcher
Reference: Genes 2012, 3, 278-290; [PDF-203K]May 2012
doi:10.3390/genes3020278
Keywords: Chernobyl; Tissue Bank; systems biology
Abstract: The only unequivocal radiological effect of the Chernobyl accident on human health is the increase in thyroid cancer in those exposed in childhood or early adolescence. In response to the scientific interest in studying the molecular biology of thyroid cancer post Chernobyl, the Chernobyl Tissue Bank (CTB: www.chernobyltissuebank.com) was established in 1998. Thus far it is has collected biological samples from 3,861 individuals, and provided 27 research projects with 11,254 samples. The CTB was designed from its outset as a resource to promote the integration of research and clinical data to facilitate a systems biology approach to radiation related thyroid cancer. The project has therefore developed as a multidisciplinary collaboration between clinicians, dosimetrists, molecular biologists and bioinformaticians and serves as a paradigm for tissue banking in the omics era.
URL: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/3/2/278/pdf
Title: Chapter 30 – Oncogenes in Thyroid Tumors
Author: Goretzki, Peter E. / Gorelev, Victor / Simon, Dietmar / Roeher, Hans-Dietrich
Reference: Textbook of Endocrine Surgery, Jan 2005
ISBN:9780721601397
Abstract: …i.e., thyrotropin or thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH…e.g., prevalence of thyroid cancer in Russia before and after the Chernobyl catastrophe), toxicology…roles of oncogenes in human thyroid tumors. Oncogenes Connected…
URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978072160139750034X
Title: Chernobyl Studies Project. Working Group 7.0, environmental transport and health effects. Progress report, February 1994
Author: Hendrickson, S.M.
Reference: DOE Scientific and Technical Information Apr 1994
doi: 10.2172/10166899
Keywords: 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; CHILDREN; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; FALLOUT; DOSE RATES; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; DOSIMETRY; THYROID; PROGRESS REPORT
Abstract: …occurring prior to the Chernobyl accident), ( 2) Dr…associated with the Chernobyl accident, and ( 3…a direct part of the Chernobyl Project. However…study on childhood-thyroid cancer. Also, we need…
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=10166899
Title: The intellectual development, mental and behavioural disorders in children from Belarus exposed in utero following the Chernobyl accident
Author: Igumnov, S / Drozdovitch, V
Reference: European Psychiatry, 15 (4), p.244-253, Jun 2000
doi: 10.1016/S0924-9338(00)00237-6
Keywords: education; emotional disorder; exposure; prenatal; social factors; specific learning ; thyroid dose
Abstract: The study examined psychological development in 250 children at the age of 6–7 and 10–12 years who had been exposed in the prenatal period at the time of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. These children were compared to a control group of 250 children of the same age from non- and slightly contaminated areas of Belarus. The examination included psychiatric examination and intellectual assessment as well as the estimation of thyroid exposure in utero. The mean value of thyroid doses from 131I 0.39 Gy was estimated for the prenatal exposed children….
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933800002376
Title: Role of Epac and protein kinase A in thyrotropin-induced gene expression in primary thyrocytes
Author: van Staveren, Wilma C.G. / Beeckman, Sandrine / Tomás, Gil / Dom, Geneviève / Hébrant, Aline / Delys, Laurent / Vliem, Marjolein J. / (…) / Maenhaut, Carine
Reference: Experimental Cell Research, 318 (5), p.444-452, Mar 2012
doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2011.12.022
Keywords: Epac; Rap; RapGAP; Thyroid; Cancer; Microarrays
Abstract: …non-treated cells. Malignant thyroid tumors and microarrays The…investigated in a panel of malignant thyroid tumors. This group of cancers…twenty PTC and twenty adjacent thyroid tissues to the latter that…PTC, n = 10) and from the Chernobyl Tissue Bank (CTB) (post-Chernobyl…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014482711005039
