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IT has been shown that the survival-rate after irradiation of new-born rats1 and mice2 may be increased by reducing the body temperature to 2–5° C. at irradiation. A slight reduction in sensitivity of adult rats to whole-body irradiation has also been shown3 by reduction of their body temperature to 18° or 19° C. The development of a technique for inducing hypothermia in rats by Andjus and Smith4, and recently extended to mice by Goldzweig and Smith5, has enabled us to demonstrate considerable protection in adult mice irradiated at a body temperature of 0–1° C.
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HORNSEY, S. Protection from Whole-body X-irradiation afforded to Adult Mice by reducing the Body Temperature. Nature 178, 87 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178087a0
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