[Action of high and superhigh doses of fission neutrons and gamma quanta on the central noradrenergic formation of the brain--on the locus coeruleus (the blue spot)].
Most of the blue spot neurons of Wistar rats exhibited a pronounced central chromatolysis 24 h following irradiation with fission neutrons (above 100 Gy) and gamma-quanta (above 200 Gy). The changes in the mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminal nerve were distinct on day 2 after 200 Gy gamma-irradiation. The number of the modified nervous cells in these regions was higher than that in other brain parts.
D000818:Animals; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005720:Gamma Rays; D008125:Locus Coeruleus / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects; D009502:Neutrons; D009680:Nuclear Fission; D011789:Quantum Theory; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013997:Time Factors; D014278:Trigeminal Nuclei / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects
Deĭstvie vysokikh i sverkhvysokikh doz neĭtronov deleniia i gamma-kvantov na tsentral'noe noradrenergicheskoe obrazovanie golovnogo mozga--locus coeruleus (goluboe piatno).