[Pathomorphologic changes in the testes of rats fed gamma ray irradiated products].
A study was made of morphological changes in the testes of 120 rats fed for 20 months only food exposed to gamma-rays. Pronounced alterative-dystrophic disorders up to foci of coagulation necrosis and aspermatogenesis as well as compensatory-adaptation processes such as proliferation of Leydig cells were found. A direct correlation was disclosed between the severity of structural alterations in the testes and the dose of gamma-rays to which the products used for animals' feeding had been exposed. A suggestion is made about the autoimmune mechanism of structural alterations discovered.
D000818:Animals; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005514:Food Irradiation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D051381:Rats; D013091:Spermatogenesis; D013733:Testicular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D013737:Testis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*
Patomorfologicheskie izmeneniia v semennikakh krys, pitavshikhsia produktami, podvergnutymi deĭstviiu gamma-lucheĭ.