2,500) 2,000+— 2 ° e ee e e 2 150 i ° % ° eo } 1,000}-— z * , s . ° e e e xX— e Dose of Ist Day 70 00 Dose duwing 2 Weeks Fig. 3. 190 300 € 2 & | o-enwe Ss or 1 year 2 yeors 3 years 3 65 40 e 370 430 700 R R 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 aplastic but hypoplastic or a type of maturation arrest even at the critical stage. 20 3 4 5 al. 6 xlo-4 RBC Fig. 4. 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, e 310 Correlation between Minimal Neutrophils Count and Dose of Gamma Radiation critical stage 100 ° ¢ $0 130 oO . 250 400 The cumulative percentage curve still displaced to the left of normal curve after one year. The results of other tests related to haemorrhage showed depression at the early stage in general and recovered by the 10th week. Bone marrow The bone marrow was aplastic at the critical Morphological abnormalities Several morphological abnormalities, e.g. abnormal granules in lymphocytes or neutrophils, vacuoles in various leucocytes and megakaryocytes, giant nuclei and hyper-segmentation 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 per- formed on 18 patients several times. Number of spermatozoa decreased about 2 months after the initial exposure, and azoo-

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