- 2
CONTENTS
paragraphs
INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
e-
8
B.
C.
METHODOLOGY
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
918 -
17
3h
D.
LIFE-SHORTENING AND AGING
35 -
57
2.
39 ~
he
56 -
57
1.
Specific and non-specific life-shortening
3.
Mechanisms of aging and life-shortening
The notion of aging
Conclusions
PHYSICAL VARIABLES
A.
B.
96
Wy
5.
6.
7.
Chinese hamster
Dog
Other mammals
Conclusions
85
86 - 87
88 - 89
90 - 96
Rat
Guinea-pig
THE EFFECT OF CONTINUOUS
1.
Mouse
2.
Guinea-pig
3.
Goat
5.
Internal irradiation
80
81 - 883
84
LIFE-TIME
IRRADIATION
97 - 150
103 — 123
12h
125
Dog
126
1e7 -
Conclusions
DOSE-RATE. DOSE FRACTIONATION,
1.
Instantaneous dose-rate
139
140 - 150
CHRONIC TERMINATED EXPOSURES
151 — 191
152 - 157
2.
Dose fractionation
158 - 172
hy
Conclusions
181 - 191
Chronic terminated exposures
RADIATIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND ENERGIES
173 - 180
192 - 213
1.
Data
192 - 206
2.
Conelusions
207 ~ 213
SPECIFICITY OF
LIFE-SHORTENING
BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES
A.
60 -
61 -
3.
E.
55
Mouse
6.
D.
43 -
38
1.
4.
C.
35 ~
58 — 222
THE EFFECT OF ACUTE SINGLE DOSES
2.
3.
II.
57
A.
uy
I.
1-
Pik —~ 220
223 - 289
GENETIC BACKGROUND
eek — 2hh
1.
225 + 237
2.
Inter-species differences
Intra-species differences
238 - 2uy