title: [Combined effect of gamma-irradiation and sodium nitrite on the oxidative sensitivity of rat hemoglobin].
abstract: gamma-Irradiation has been defined to increase in the rats blood the methemoglobin level providing for shortening the initiation phase and accelerates the autocatalytic phase initiation, reduces the period of half transforming hemoglobin into methemoglobin and increases the velocity of its oxidation. Alongside with the latter there is observed a violation of methemoglobin concentration growth dependence on the animals irradiation dose (in the range of 0.16-0.50 Gr). The hemoglobin oxygenation reaction kinetics with the initial level of hemoglobin unexceeding 3% has been determined as having a biexponential character. The reaction kinetics parameters don't depend on ionizing radiation and number of sodium nitrite oxidized subunits formed in the process of reaction in the case if their composition unexceeds 50% of the total level.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Radioecological Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Karkotskia
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bachilo
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Lepeshkevich
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Malenchenko
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Dzhagarov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012977:Sodium Nitrite / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins; D012977:Sodium Nitrite