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Radioprotection
Volume 44, Numéro 5, 2009
ECORAD 2008 - Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity
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Page(s) | 129 - 134 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/20095028 | |
Publié en ligne | 6 juin 2009 |
Radioadaptation of rodents in the zone of local radioactive contamination (Kyshtim Accident, Russia): 50 years on
Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology, RAS Ural Branch, 8 Marta Str., 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Results of radioecological investigations of rodents having different ecological specialization – wood and field mice, northern red-backed voles and mole-voles to acute (laboratory experiment) and chronic (long-term inhabiting the East Ural Radioactive Trace – EURT) irradiation are summarized. These species are greatly distinguished by a way of life, a migratory activity, an average life span etc. Numerous immunological, hematological and cytogenetical disturbances were found in more radioresistant wood and field mice and northern red-backed voles inhabiting the EURT zone (density of soil pollution by 90Sr-18.5 MBq/m2=500 Ci/km2) as compared with the reference samples. On the contrary there were no pathological shifts in more radiosensitive mole-voles from the more radioactively contaminated site (90Sr-37 MBq/m2=1000 Ci/km2. The absorbed dozes during the life for the mole-voles from the EURT zone were significantly higher (in 30 times) than these ones for mice and voles. These data testify about the possibility of radioadaptation in a series of generations in mole-voles that developed due to their ecophysiological features and isolation of settlement in the radiocontaminated zone. Mice and voles form a flowing population and slip off the prolonged influence of a damaging factor, this circumstance prevents the development of radioadaptation.
© EDP Sciences, 2009
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