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From an abstract, Dr. Alexander Kuzin,
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, Honorary Doctor of the Leeds
University (England), State Prize Winner of the USSR (1987), Head of the Group of
Radiational Biochemistry and Cellular Regulation, of the Institute of Biophysics, reports
(1993) that: "The different cellular responses to high (suppressive) and low (stimulant) doses of atomic radiation suggest understanding of radiation hormesis, since the well developed mechanisms of damaging effect of atomic radiation (radiodamage of DNA, chromosomal aberrations, death of radiosensitive cells) cannot explain the converse effects of low stimulant radiation doses. Here the direct or indirect excitation of membrane receptors comes to the foreground. The excitation activates membrane-bound enzymes which control many vitally important processes. "Now that an increasing proportion of the general population is exposed to
low chronic doses of ionizing radiation, the knowledge of radiation hormesis acquires
great importance, particularly, for temporal predictions of its consequences. Although
this problem is far from complete understanding, it is, undoubtedly, wrong to estimate the
hazard of the low radiation doses by straight extrapolation of the data obtained with much
higher doses during shorter time periods." |
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