title: [Evaluation of cytophysiological state of testis in forest voles living in the radioactively contaminated areas].
abstract: We made a cytophysiological analys of testis in Clethrionomus rutilus and Apodemus sylvaticus inhabiting a contaminated area of the East Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT). The study showed that in the norm these species differed in the total number of cells of spermatogenous epithelium, due to interspecific difference. In the sampling plot a concentration of 90Sr in Clethrionomus rutilus was 2 times higher than that in Apodemus sylvaticus. Maximum destructive changes in endocrine and exocrine (seminiferous tubules) section of testis and increased proliferation activity of spermatogenous epithelium were observed in Clethrionomus rutilus.Increased proliferation activity was found as a compensatory-protective reaction which promote the maintenance of the germ cell number. Such changes were not observed in Apodemus sylvaticus.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Mamina
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000737:chemistry; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D008297:Male; D009115:Muridae; D009132:Muscles / Q000737:chemistry; D011827:Radiation; D011836:Radiation Tolerance / Q000502:physiology; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D012426:Russia; D012671:Seminiferous Tubules / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects; D013091:Spermatogenesis / Q000528:radiation effects*; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000473:pathology; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D013737:Testis / Q000528:radiation effects*
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes