Abstract
IT has been shown that the shielding of the liver in situ protects 73 per cent of a group of rats against a dose of X-rays which is 100 per cent lethal after fifteen days for the control animals1. E. S. G. Barron2 showed that glutathione had a protective action in mice when injected before the lethal irradiation. Bacq and his co-workers3 have shown that β-mercaptoethylamine protects mice against a lethal dose of X-rays when this compound is injected into the animals immediately before the total body irradiation. We have been able to confirm these results in rats4. On the other hand, the β-mercaptoethylamine is completely inactive when given even immediately after the exposure to a lethal dose.
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