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As established, total X-irradiation caused significant disturbances of thermoregulation in albino mice. The character of these changes depends on three circumstances: body temperature prior to the irradiation, period of radiation injury development and radiation dose. Thus, if the body temperature prior to the irradiation was 37.0°–39.5° C, it decreased during the first hours after the irradiation and this reduction was the greater, the higher the radiation dose. A rise in body temperature was noted in mice whose body temperature was 34.5°–37.0°C prior to this procedure. Irrespective of the character of body temperature variations during the first hours after the irradiation, temperature fell during the peak of radiation sickness.
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Poplavskii, K.K. Change in the body temperature of white mice following total irradiation with roentgen rays. Bull Exp Biol Med 55, 632–634 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00786802
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00786802