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RADIATION BIOLOGY 



Mutations, gene, radiation-induced, 405- 



409 



in mammals, 825-859 



spontaneous, 405-409 

 and germ-cell age, 504, 552 

 and heavy metals, 574 

 and hydrogen peroxide, 547-552 

 hypermorphic, 398, 597 

 hypomorphic, 397, 449, 597 

 lethal, 394, 652, 653, 666, 1133 



cell, 838 



dominant, 359, 504, 632, 644, 646, 

 655, 657, 663, 666-668, 670, 675, 

 676, 682-685, 687-689, 825, 

 831-840, 844, 847, 854, 856 

 and abnormalities from irradia- 

 tion of embryos, 903, 913 



recessive, 851-855 



sex-linked, 140, 405, 476, 851 



somatic, 1135 

 in mammals, 825-859 

 in man, 419, 583, 854-856 

 and natural radiation, 581-584 

 neomorphic, 381, 399, 597 

 not radiation-induced, 412-418 

 and nuclear transmutation, 584-590 

 and nucleic acid, 540 

 and oxygen, 561, 856 

 and ozone, 557, 563 

 partial sterility, 825, 840, 842-850, 854 

 point, 389, 394, 411, 825, 826, 836, 837, 

 839, 855 



and ionization, 475-479 



relation to chromosomal breakage, 

 496-507 



and temperature, 565 



and ultraviolet radiation, 531-542 

 pre-, 511 



and pressure, 573 

 proportionality of, to dose, 477 

 radiation, 389-396 



spacially limited, 507-511, 517-525 



time-limited, 511-517 

 and radiation duration and intensity, 



478 

 and radioactive phosphorus, 585, 587 

 and radioactive sulfur, 585 

 rate of, critical, 433 



of immature female germ cells, 552 



of individual genes, 407, 853 



mammalian, 903 



in man, 583, 854-856 



and meiotic stage, 566 



in mouse, 850-856 



of spermatogonia, 552, 850-853, 855, 

 856 



of spermatozoa, 552, 850, 851, 855 

 recessive, 381, 402, 450 



Mutations, reverse or normad, 398, 596 

 597 



semilethal, dominant, 831-840 

 recessive, 851-855 



semisterility, 825, 840, 842-850, 854 



sex-linked, 140, 405, 476, 851 



somatic, in mouse, 903 



and sonic vibrations, 572 



specific loci, 850-856 



spontaneous, 389-396 



in statosphere, 582 



sterility, 840-843, 854, 855 



sublethal class of, 395 



subvital, 831-840, 851, 852, 855 



and supersonics, 589 



"suppressor," 399, 441 



and target hypothesis, 525-531 



and temperature, 412 



and thermal neutrons, 588 



translocations, 842-844, 846-850, 854 



transverse induction of, 509 



and undernourishment, 576 



"unit loads" of, 434 



and viability, 395, 853-856 



viable, recessive, 851-854 



visible, 395, 477, 502, 506 

 dominant, 850-851, 855 

 recessive, 851, 852 



and X-ray wave length, 478 

 Myaesthenia gravis, 460 

 Myelocytes, 1099, 1106 

 Myeloid cells, maturation of, 964 

 Myocardial damage, 967, 981 

 Myofibrils, 1095 



Myosin (adenosinetriphosphatase), 298 

 Myotis lucifugus, 977 



N 

 Nails, 1119 

 Narcissus, 489 

 Nasopharynx, 1124 

 Nausea, 982 



(See also Radiation illness) 

 Necrosis following prenatal irradiation, 



897 

 Nembutal anesthesia, 937, 946 

 Nephritis, 305 



Nerve cells, radiosensitivity of, 929, 930 

 Nerves, 1097, 1131 



peripheral, 996 

 Nervous system, radiation effects, 994- 



996, 1006 

 Nervous tissue, developing, 996 



of embryos, 1131 



of newborn, 1131 

 Neuroblasts, radiosensitivity of, 996 

 Neurofibrils, 1095 

 Neurogenic origin of anorexia, 985 



