“| HEA A Tob aGh BSE PS ATTONS Table 4.11.—Mean Peripheral Bloog Count Value. tor Several Control Populations (x10°) (rR APANESF Kok es om Total White cog Neutrophil: ; wu Monocytes 1 Eosinophils ~ Vw ER UO 448" - ot rod AMERICANS 2) HLS iy 5 Lymphocys ss Boov SATA PR TERMINATION KwadAMERICAS CONTROLY : 7 roy 40 | 4,8 — 2 4 oo 4 | 3 0.3 4.1 1), 2 . 5 i ay a 0 0. 1 238 308 : Basopniles Platelets emu 8 “ Gp aNTEOt . aT *Age 21 vears **PHe mean watt: fer SO present study nortuab settee Ve Ooo Hong the technique emploved mm the vas 207 OH: casualties. This ductuation caasy be assocratec with the presence of therma or other injuries in the Japanese or tle aet ce sku iesions in toe hese cueans, 15 weeks after exposure were still rise” noted for anima s following esx pesire (14,15). From the tt seek siti] the tern nation of the acute -tucie: cn the Marshallese beoovers Was not complete 2 years after exmoore, The studies of these authors, per- Marshallese. or may) orrespond te the cabort. ve during the jOth veekh, che Japanese me peiaa dneans for control populations listed in Paoe ¢1t. In fact, data of Kikuchi and “Vookisakea om. 23) indicate that hematologic med ot dependentiy.of the Joint Commission bE \tennie Bomb Casualty Commission, sug- Marshallese counts temaiied at similar devels west the early blood response and prolonged and Marshallese in cenera peurn leled the tota white count. The vinotoe te count oy ieth groups was depressed eas cad remured ve pressed at Values of apotoxoniateby 200d arty eported here for the Marshallese. “ie oresent fiidings in the Marshallese are ceare: woth these characteristics, aamely eta wd ite cell and neutrophile counts heoweet dia definite minimtuni ac 4 weeks as eviIeoced of Jagmnese groups \ to D, but rather ho ryatee dhrime the rs: weeks with minhntium pede ooounts occurring inthe 6th week or later, ) oceutroph de counts were unstable over the het weeks. and recovery to control levels was o compete by the 6th month, co} lymphocyte oobts remained depressed throughout the peoe df observation, Mateles data cn the -liupanese are not sith. eat. «flow: cnore than rough qualitative meqe sens ‘Tuisas unfortunate since changes The neutrophile sount week 10. The high 1 ooth the Ji prurese cabue of vine reported ey the Japanese for weeks 2b i miist oe sas pected of beim hich Se CP HSGTS CTU pT earlier. Various clairnctecist footie lapiriese hematological trends shor ca ae painted our 4 while ugh dose exposure vroupe woth satan eant mortality shower sor \ depression woth a definite low point atop ees. he ower dose groups showed no definite me mii cdini at } week but rather a contintied werression until the sth or 9th weeks. ob) While no ean ie dcoesre concatof the heavily exposed ere ips cad reravered part and were approae oar OMDTT LE - 8 oc oortia = uneres ecavery oof the Japanese was similar to that iedet ootints in the present studies ap-