Kinetics of the early adaptive response to gamma rays: induction of a cellular radioprotective mechanism in murine leukocytes in vivo.

The aims of the study were to establish the kinetics of the early adaptive response and to determine the minimum adaptive dose of gamma rays capable of inducing this response. The minimum adaptive dose was determined by exposing groups of five BALB/c male mice to an adaptive dose of 0.005 or of 0.