Effects of Exposure of Animals to Oxygen Atmosphere at Low Pressure on Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant Defense.

Relatively short-term (2.5 or 5 h) exposure of Wistar rats to oxygen atmosphere at moderate pressure (1.10-1.

Geno- and cytotoxic effects in bone marrow cells and peripheral blood induced by the prolonged administration of 131I to the laboratory rats.

Objective: to evaluate the state of to assess the state of hematopoietic system of experimental rats according to the geno and cytotoxic effects in bone marrow and changes in morphology composition of peripheral blood caused by prolonged 131I intake.

Materials And Methods: Within 15 days sodium iodide with activity of 29,3 kBq/animal was daily orally administered to Wistar rats. At 1, 2, 3, 7 and 15 days specific radioisotope activity, level of micronuclei in bone marrow cells, cyto toxicity index, number of erythrocytes and leucocytes in peripheral blood were determined.

Association of the apolipoprotein E 2 allele with concurrent occurrence of endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma.

Genes encoding proteins with antioxidant properties may influence susceptibility to endometrial hyperplasia (EH) and endometrial carcinoma (ECa). Patients with EH (n = 89), EH concurrent with ECa (n = 76), ECa (n = 186), and healthy controls (n = 1110) were genotyped for five polymorphic variants in the genes involved in metabolism of lipoproteins (APOE Cys112Arg and Arg158Cys), iron (HFE Cys282Tyr and His63Asp), and catecholamines (COMT Val158Met). Patients and controls were matched by ethnicity (all Caucasians), age, body mass index (BMI), and incidence of hypertension and diabetes.

Radiation-induced chromosomal instability of human lymphocytes as a marker of breast cancer risk.

to assess the variability of the levels of chromosome aberrations induced by the in vitro irradiation of lymphocytes of breast cancer (BC) patients in comparison with healthy individuals. Materials and methods. Samples of peripheral blood for lymphocyte cultures were obtained from 44 healthy women and 37 primary patients with BC (T1-2N1M0).

Radiation-induced instability of human genome.

A brief review is dedicated to the phenomenon of radiation-induced genomic instability where the increased level of genomic changes in the offspring of irradiated cells is characteristic. Particular attention is paid to the problems of genomic instability induced by the low-dose radiation, role of the bystander effect in formation of radiation-induced instability, and its relationship with individual radiosensitivity. We believe that in accordance with the paradigm of modern radiobiology the increased human individual radiosensitivity can be formed due to the genome instability onset and is a significant risk factor for radiation-induced cancer.