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for daily hematological studies nentioned
below snd the blood of the dogs will be saved
for chemical studies.
c.
Blood Counts:
To be done drily on dogs and
pigs by Commander Cronkite.
d.
Blood Chemistry:
50 percent of the doz blood
at autopsy will be saved.
senarated and frozen.
The plesme will be
The following studies
are contemplated:
1.
plesma fibrinogen (?? by whom)
2,
non-protein bound iron (Che.nutin)
3,
serum potassium (Hestings)
“he remainder of the plasma will be stabilized
and preserved by passing through an ion
exchange column (Libby, U.C.L.A.).
Therme1
Radiation:
There will be
first test, six in the second,
five
stetion2?
in the
each containing eleven
animals (three or four pigs for every dog).
Sach
animel will be anesthetized and held in place against
the vorts designed to adnit non-ionizing radiations of
different wave length or at different times after the
exrlosion.
Three combinetions of biological measurements
will be mede--the first, the thermal burns versus time
1.¢.
durins the first 30 nillisecond interval after the
explosion and during the veriod thereafter; the second,
the burn produced on skin graduslly exnosed by a sliding
Shutter which opens at a definite
rate of sneed, and
third, burns vroduced by excluding certain components of
the lisht snectrun,
the ultraviolet,
i.e.
by filtering out individuclly
the visible,
and the infrered licht.
"ech of these tests will be car ied out on both pigs and
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