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Distant Mutagenic Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Mammals

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WHEN plant and animal tissues are irradiated with X- and γ-rays, humoral factors are formed which may have a mutagenic effect1–7. Mutagenic factors have also been found in irradiated organic growth media1,8–10. Here we report the findings of an investigation of the mutagenic effect of humoral toxic factors which appear in mammalian tissues after X-ray irradiation.

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  1. Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, USSR

    JU. JA. KERKIS & L. N. JASNOVA

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KERKIS, J., JASNOVA, L. Distant Mutagenic Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Mammals. Nature 215, 1403–1405 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151403a0

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