[Biochemical changes in the brain of the root vole (Microtus oeconomus) from a 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].
Deviations in lipid peroxidation parameters and in activity of dehydration enzymes in the brain of the tundra voles inhabiting areas with higher level of technogenic contamination (the 30-km zone of the Chernobyl NPP and the Republic of Komi) have been analyzed. During the first years after the disaster a decrease in the lipid antioxidative status of the brain and dehydrogenase activity, changes in the lipid composition of voles trapped in the disaster zone in comparison with control ones were more significant. Relative stabilization of the phospholipid composition with low antioxidizing activity of lipids and slight activity of succinate and piruvate dehydrogenases has been observed in a distant period of analysis.
Kudiasheva
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AG
Zagorskaia
N G
NG
Shevchenko
O G
OG
D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae / Q000378:metabolism*; D001417:Background Radiation; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects*; D001923:Brain Chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005720:Gamma Rays; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000528:radiation effects; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis / Q000528:radiation effects; D011210:Power Plants; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D012426:Russia; D013997:Time Factors; D014455:Ukraine
D008055:Lipids