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Live and heat-inactivated Artemia salina spores (samples with the same mass and filling density) were exposed to a flow of thermal neutrons from a 252Cf radioactive source at an equivalent dose power of about 1 µSv/h. Irradiation led to a 4-fold acceleration of nauplius development and to modification of the element profiles of live spores. The difference between absorption/diffusion of thermal neutrons by live and dead spores was revealed.
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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 138, No. 11, pp. 530–534, November, 2004
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Matveeva, I.S., Smirnov, A.N., Vodennikov, B.D. et al. Neutron flow exposure as a test for survival of Artemia Salina spores. Bull Exp Biol Med 138, 470–474 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-005-0073-0
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