Date of Award

5-15-1952

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Biological Sciences

First Advisor

John P. O'Brien

Abstract

There appears to be an important relationship between the overall metabolic rate prevailing in a protoplasmic system at the time of exposure to ionizing radiations and the extent of the damage effected by such radiation. It is with this issue that the present investigation is concerned.

Radiation biologists and clinical radiologists are coming to realize the importance of this problem. This increasing interest has suggested several new avenues of approach to the radiobiologist toward the elucidation of the more subtle changes occurring in protoplasmic system s exposed to radi­ation. Clinical radiology has availed itself of certain evi­dence (in a yet limited way) in the direction of devising methods for the regulation of the metabolic rate of tissues with a view to lessening or enhancing the damaging effects of radiation, as the circumstances indicate.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science

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