[Effect of ultradispersible powder of piezoelectric ceramics on the structure of a peripheral red blood cell population].
Ultradispersible powder (UDP) of piezoelectric ceramics, which contains the oxides of lead, bismuth, chromium, etc. was tested for its effects on the structure of a peripheral red blood cell population in the staff maintaining the pilot commercial plants to manufacture piezoceramic UDP and in rats (by using an experimental model of chronic UDP intoxication). A number of general regularities of a red blood cell response to piezoelectric ceramic UDP were identified: despite the absence of visible changes in the values of red blood, there were significant peripheral erythrocytic structural changes shown as the decreased levels of diskocytes, the larger number of degenerative, prehemolytic, and transient forms of cells.
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