Showing posts with label ionizing radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ionizing radiation. Show all posts
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Appendix Part 2

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3) Immunosurveillance systems are able to eliminate clones of transformed cells, as is shown by tumor cell transplants. The effectiveness of...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Appendix

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Academie des Sciences (Academy of Sciences) Academie nationale de Medecine (National Academy of Medicine) Dose-effect relationships and es...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Other Factors?

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While Logan lists the groups that he believes have an aversion to even considering the possibility of a new regulatory structure, I've g...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Don't Let the Data Get in the Way of a "Made Up" Mind

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What is the significance of this report? Professor Emeritus John Cameron of the University of Wisconsin Medical School puts it in perspectiv...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

United States (again)

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"Studies of populations chronically exposed to low-level radiation, such as those residing in regions of elevated natural radiation, ha...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Leukemia Mortality Among Survivors

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Leukemia is a family of cancer involving the white blood cells. With the exception of lymphocytic leukemia - which is often erroneously incl...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Very Strange - But I Don't Make the Data; I Just Report Them

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The next figure is about mice that were not subjected to radiation but who had fathers that had been exposed prior to becoming a mouse-paren...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Effects of Radiation on the Life Span of Mice

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Surely if ionizing radiation has beneficial effects on growth rate and the immune system competence of mice, as evidenced by a decreased sus...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Effects of Radiation on Cancer in Mice - Lung Cancer Mortality

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There are three studies that address the effects of ionizing radiation on lung cancer mortality in mice. The most recent of these was a 1997...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Effects of Radiation on Cancer - Leukemia Mortality

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Of the myriad varieties of cancer, leukemia is most often considered to be associated with exposure to ionizing radiation, so we'll look...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Hormesis Mechanisms

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Every second the average person in the United States is "hit" by 15,000 particles of ionizing radiation, mostly from background so...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Acute Radiation Syndrome

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Table 8 – Acute Radiation Syndrome Subclinical Range 0 – 100 rads Therapeutic Range 100 – 500 rads Lethal Ran...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Before Going on to Radiation ...

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Let's look at some common examples of where we see hormesis in humans. Vitamins and trace minerals clearly show the difference a dose...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Hormetins

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While we will be concerned with hormesis arising from exposure to ionizing radiation, this is only one area where the phenomenon is exhibite...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Maybe What We Know Ain't So?

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The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so. - Josh Billings 1818-85 If you'...