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RADIATION BIOLOGY 



Adrenal cortex, extracts of, 935, 992 



lipids of, 990 

 Adrenal insufficiency, 934, 992, 1005 

 Adrenal medulla, 991 

 Adrenal radiation exposure, 982 

 Adrenalectomy, effect on leukemogencsis, 



1165 

 Adrenals, 306, 929, 989-992 



catechols, 991 



hyperemia, 1131 



immunity, 1004 



latent period after irradiation, 1132 



radioactive isotopes and, 1132 



radium and, 1132 



X rays and, 1131 

 Adrenocorticotropic hormone, 990, 992 

 Aerobic glycolysis, 306 

 Age, and radiation effects, 1093 



and radiosensitivity, 933 

 Alanine, 305 

 Albumin, 293 



absorption spectrum, 294 



egg, 293 



plasma, 295 



serum, 294-296 

 Albumin-globulin ratio, plasma, 973 

 Alcohol, 291 



ethyl, 580 

 Alcohol dehydrogenase, 299 

 Aldehydes, 417 



aliphatic, 290 

 Algae, 322, 445 

 Alkalosis, 1000 

 Alkaptonuria, 461 

 All-or-none phenomenon, 121 

 Allantoin, 988 

 Alleles, 355 



iso-, 403 



positional, 404 



pseudo-, 594 

 Allium, 589, 683, 737, 776, 782, 799, 801, 



815 

 Alopecia, 919, 1148 



Alpha irradiation, internal, 964, 970, 973, 

 1000 



oxygen effect, 940 

 a particles, 318, 320 



atomic weight, 7 



charge, 7 



effects of, on chromosomes, 724, 726 

 as modified by oxygen, 748, 751, 752 



ejection of, 35 

 spontaneous, 36 



relative efficiency in chromosome- 

 aberration production, 732 



scattering, 42 

 Alpha radiation, effects of, on carboxy- 

 peptidase, 271 



Alpha radiation, effects of, compared 

 with X rays, 271 

 cytosome, 785 

 on glycine deamination, 271 

 mechanism, 271 

 mitotic, 785-787 

 on tyrosine, 271 

 a rays, 3 



(See also Alpha radiation) 

 Altitude, 935, 965 

 Ambystoma, 783 

 Ameba, Chaos, 304 

 Amenorrhea, 999 



Amino acid oxidase, X-ray effect on, 261 

 D-amino acid oxidase, 299 

 Amino acids, 307, 324, 328 

 deamination, 296 

 oxidation, 307 



(See also individual amino acids) 

 D-amino acids, 306 

 Amino groups, 292 

 Ammonia, 414, 575 

 Ammonia formation, 306, 390 

 Ammonium hydroxide, 575 

 Amorphous cementing substance and 



bone, 1108 

 Amphibia, 554, 628, 643, 656, 801, 803, 



804, 806 

 Anaerobic glycolysis, 306 

 Anaerobiosis, 940-941 

 Anamnestic reaction, 1004 

 Anaphase, 628, 632, 645, 647, 661, 662, 



669, 689 

 Androgenesis, 510 

 Anemia, 922, 961 



and bone marrow, 1100 

 induced by acute radiation, 1036-1041, 

 1047, 1079 

 effect on, of irradiation, 1064-1066 

 mechanism of recovery from, 

 1038-1040 

 of spleen-shielding and increments 

 to spleen, 1079 

 induced by chronic radiation, 1050- 

 1052, 1054-1056 

 by gamma rays, 1054-1056 

 macrocytic, 1056 

 by radioisotopes, 1058-1060 

 recovery from, 1056 

 induced by fast neutrons, 1043 

 induced by gamma radiation (see 



Gamma radiation) 

 induced by X radiation (see X radia- 

 tion) 

 pathogenesis of, 964 

 phcnylhydrazine-induced, and X radia- 

 tion, 1064-1066 

 recovery from, 1067, 1068 



