[Reciprocal translocations in mice found in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power station].
A study was made of the incidence of genetic damage to germ cells of male mice taken from or exposed within the thirty-kilometer zone of Chernobyl, the contaminated no-man's-land around the reactor that failed. At all contamination levels mouse spermatocytes exhibited reciprocal translocations, a relatively low frequency of which increased with increasing dose rate. Heterozygotes, with respect to reciprocal translocations (5%), were found among males exposed to enhanced radiation background as early embryos.
Pomerantseva
M D
MD
Ramaĭia
L K
LK
Testov
B V
BV
Chekhovich
A V
AV
Shevchenko
V A
VA
Shaks
A I
AI
Lobaneva
N V
NV
D000059:Accidents; D000818:Animals; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000528:radiation effects; D006579:Heterozygote; D008297:Male; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D051381:Rats; D013090:Spermatocytes / Q000528:radiation effects*; D014178:Translocation, Genetic / Q000528:radiation effects*; D014455:Ukraine
Retsiproknye translokatsii u mysheĭ, nadkhodivshikhsia v raĭone Chernobyl'skoĭ AES.