title: Response of whole body X-irradiation to inanition stress.
abstract: The study showed the effect of whole body X-irradiation on normal and starved rats. Irradiation brought about more deleterious changes in the starved rats rather than the normally fed rats. Following X-irradiation levels of protein and nucleic acid (DNA and RNA) contents in the brain; cholesterol and alkaline phosphatase in the testes were found excessively lowered in the starved rats when compared with the irradiated control rats. Concentration of 5-HIAA and VMA was higher in the urine of rats undergoing inanition stress rather than the normal rats after X-irradiation. Similarly the degenerative changes were prominent in the testes of starved rats rather than the normally fed rats after irradiation.
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000032:analysis; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid / Q000652:urine; D008297:Male; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D013217:Starvation; D013737:Testis / Q000032:analysis / Q000473:pathology; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA; D002784:Cholesterol; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase