SUBJECT INDEX 



Fast neutrons, relation of aberration 

 yield to dose, 726 

 relative efficiency in chromosome- 

 aberration production, 732 

 toxicity of, 923, 961, 998 

 Fat, absorption of, 986 



in cells, 1095 

 Fat cells, bone marrow, 1100 

 Fat infiltration of liver, 987 

 Fatty acids, 298 

 Fenton reagent, 290 

 Fern, 576, 786, 796 

 Fern spores, 322, 324, 333, 936, 939 

 Ferric sulfate, 575 

 Ferricytochrome c, 289 

 Ferrocytochrome, 287 

 Ferrocytochrome c, 307 

 Fertility, effects of radiation, in mam- 

 mals, 826-831 

 effects of prenatal irradiation on, 889- 



890, 896-898, 909, 912 

 (See also Mutations, partial sterility, 

 sterility; Sterility) 

 Fetal period, irradiation during, 862, 863, 

 893-900, 912 

 and time of parturition, 898-899 

 Fetus, human, effects of radiation on, 

 908-911 

 mechanism of radiation effect on, 



900-908 

 (See also Fetal period) 

 Fibrinogen, 965, 967, 973 

 Fibroblasts, 321, 335-336 

 Fish, LD 6 o for, 930 

 Fission, 14, 36 



Fission products and intestine, 1127 

 Flavone enzymes, 562 

 Flavonoids, 968-969, 979 

 Flavoproteins, 551 

 Flower pigments, 461 

 Fluids, body, 969-976 



extracellular, of intestine, 984 

 Fluorescein, 978 



Fluorescence and phosphorescence, 22, 

 46, 201-202, 216-217, 224, 227, 230, 

 231, 233, 246 

 quenching of, 202, 203, 206, 207, 231 

 sensitized, 203, 207, 228, 237re., 248n. 

 X-ray, 47, 69 

 yield, 107 

 Fluoride, 941, 946 

 Fluoroacetate, 946, 988 

 Fodder, 445 



Follicular epithelium of ovary, 1117 

 Food consumption, 984 

 Food production, 445 

 Formaldehyde, 417, 422, 547 

 Formate, 581 



1241 



Formic acid, 288 

 Fractionated doses, 925 



effects on chromosome-aberration vield 

 729 

 Fragility, capillary, 1044 



vascular, 979 

 Franck-Condon principle, 204-206, 208 

 214-218, 220, 223-224, 227, 235, 238 

 Frog eggs, 935 

 Frog radiosensitivity, 936 

 Fructose phosphorylation, 986 

 Fucus, 543 



Fungi, 324, 333, 415, 444, 462, 505, 531, 

 535, 543, 557 



G 



Galactose, 304 

 Galactozymase, 304 

 Gall bladder, 1128 



carcinogenesis in, 1154, 1156, 1184 

 Gallium 72 , effect on peripheral blood, 



1061 

 Galls, 444 



Gamma radiation, 408, 518, 521-523 

 anemia induced by, 1050-1052, 1054- 

 1056 

 effect of, on bone marrow, 1056 

 on peripheral blood, 1049-1056 

 on survival, 1052 

 and eye, 1131 

 genetic effects of, in mammals, 825, 



830, 847 

 genetic hazards of, 854-856 

 and lymph nodes, 1104 

 and mutation, 479, 487 

 pancytopenia induced by, 1055, 1056 

 and spleen, 1107 

 and testis, 1114, 1116 

 7 rays, 3 



anemia induced by (see Gamma 



radiation) 

 definition of, 20n., 21 

 energy release in tissues, 764, 785, 786 

 lethal effect on cells, 805, 808-810 

 measurement of, 318-319 

 mitotic effects, 771, 776-779, 782, 784, 



786, 787, 789-794, 797 

 and mutations, 479, 487 

 ratio to X rays, 923, 976 

 secondary, 117 

 sources of, 26 



(See also Gamma radiation; X rays) 

 Ganglion cells, 995 

 Gastric acidity, 985-986 

 Gastric atrophy, 985-986 

 Gastric secretion, 1125 



