SUBJECT INDEX 



1237 



Conversion, internal, 34 

 Copper sulfate, 414 

 Coproantibodies, response, 1003 

 Coproporphyria 988 

 Cornea, epithelium, 926 

 radiation effects, 998 

 Corpora lutea, 1117, 1118 

 Corpuscular radiation (see Radiation) 

 Cortisone, effect of, on leukemogenesis, 

 1164, 1188 

 on mouse embryo, 907 

 Corynebacterium creatinovorans, 301 

 Cosmic rays, 3 

 Crepis, 363, 589 



Critical periods for induction of abnor- 

 malities by prenatal irradiation, 

 880-887, 891-893, 901, 902, 904, 906, 

 909, 912, 913 

 Crocus, 774 

 Crop plants, 442 

 Cross circulation, 926 

 Cross section, definition of, 37n. 

 Crossing over, 356, 359-362, 508 



in Drosophila, 635, 638, 642, 653, 654, 



668 

 somatic, 458 

 Crypt epithelium of intestine, 982 

 Crystal diffraction, neutrons, 115 



X rays, 105 

 Cumingia, 784 

 Cumulative dose, 766, 770 

 Cumulative effect, 1136 

 Curie (unit), 13 

 Current, oscillating, 20, 30, 33 

 frequency of, 30 

 resonating, 17, 20 

 Cyanide, 551, 562, 577, 580 

 of potassium, 576 

 and radiosensitivity, 941, 945 

 Cyclotron, 12 



Cysteine, 295, 304, 551, 579, 586 

 liberation of H,S from, 267-268 

 modification of radiation injury by, 

 1067, 1068 

 and estradiol, 1068 

 and estrogens plus spleen shielding, 



1079, 1080 

 and/or spleen shielding, 1080 

 protection by, 942-945, 965 



mechanism of protective effect, 1067, 

 1068 

 Cytochemical techniques and analysis in 



radiobiology, 692, 693, 695 

 Cytochrome c, 287 

 Cytochrome oxidase, 544, 550, 551, 562, 



576 

 Cytochrome reductase, 941 



Cytological techniques and analysis in 

 radiobiology, 632, 635, 638, 648, 673, 

 696 

 Cytoplasm, decrease in viscosity of, 1095 

 injections of, 928 

 and nucleus, 928-929 



relative radiosensitivity of, 1094 

 Cytoplasmic inheritance, 595, 596 

 Cytoplasmic movements, 1095 



D 



Daily irradiation of ovary, 1118 



Datura, 391 



Deamination, of amino acids, 296 



glycine, effect of alpha radiation on, 



271 

 by X rays, 265-266 



effect of solute concentration, 268- 



270 

 pH dependence, 266-267 

 Death, genetic, 426, 430 



(See also Mortality) 

 Decrease in viscosity of cytoplasm, 1095 

 Decticus, 358 

 Deficiency, 449, 854, 855 

 Degenerative phenomena, 1092 

 cartilage cells, 1112, 1113 

 epidermis, 1121 

 Dehydration, 969 

 11-Dehydrocorticosterone, 992 

 Delayed effects, 1097 

 Deletions, 480, 498, 842 

 8 rays, 81, 271 



Dermatitis, radiation, 919, 1148 

 Desoxycorticosterone, 992 

 Desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 305 

 chromosome breakage, 723 

 radiation effects on, 276, 277, 753-755 

 depolymerization, 277 

 inhibition of formation, 276 

 oxygen and radiosensitivity of, 755 

 synthesis, 929, 962 

 Desoxyribonucleic acid depolymerase, 



299 

 Desquamation, 338 

 Deuterons, 3 

 atomic weight, 7 

 charge, 7 

 Development, 458-462 



mammalian prenatal, broad divisions 

 of, with respect to radiation 

 response, 862-863, 886, 911 

 radiation effects on, 861-918 

 Developmental anomalies, 861-918, 1185 

 Devitalized bone, 1111 

 Diagnostic irradiation and hazards to 

 embryo, 910, 913 



