2,500 2,000}— a ° e 3,300 e ee e °e ee % e i e ® e e e ® 500 6 e Dese of kt Dey 70 85 Dose during 2 Weeks 190 00 p88 § 3 Cumviative Persent é xi0-3 Fig. 4. 290 0 310 300 370 40 700. OR sR Correlation between Minimal Neutrophils Count and Dose of Gamma Radiation _ Fig. 3. 130 0 e rec Cumulative Distribution Curves (RBC) Platelets Platelets counts showed increasing depression, reaching minimum at the 4th-7th weeks. The recovery began during the following several weeks. The cumulative percentage curvestill displaced to the left of normal curve after one year. The results of other tests related to haemor- rhage showed depression at the early stage in general and recovered by the 10th week. Bone marrow The bone marrow was aplastic at the critical stage in severe cases, which showed remaining and proliferation of plasma cells and reticulum cells. With the beginning of recovery, aplastic marrow changed to hypoplastic and then turned into a type of maturation arrest. Recovery was not complete even after one year. In the cases not so severe as these, the bone marrow was not ‘'stic but hypoplastic or a type of maturation arrest even at the critical stage. Morphological abnormalities Several morphological abnormalities, e.g. abnormal granules in lymphocytes or neutrophils, vacuoles in various leucocytes and megakaryocytes, giant nuclet and hyper-seymentation of neutrophils, binucleated lymphocytes, abnormal mitosis of erythroblasts, etc. were observed for about one year, especially at the critical and the recovering stages. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was accelerated in the early stage in some cases. 4. Spermatopoiesis The examinations of spermatopoiesis were performed on 18 patients several times. Number of spermatozoa decreased about 2 months after the initial exposure, and azov-