Ebook: Radiobiology and Environmental Security

This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based – addresses the fundamental science that contributes to our understanding of the potential risks from ecological terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, intentional release of radionuclides into water or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, with particular focus on environmentally relevant low-dose ranges. The state-of-the-art contributions to the book are authored by leading experts; they tackle the relevant questions from the perspectives of radiation genetics, radiobiology, radioecology, radiation epidemiology and risk assessment.

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This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based – addresses the fundamental science that contributes to our understanding of the potential risks from ecological terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, intentional release of radionuclides into water or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, with particular focus on environmentally relevant low-dose ranges. The state-of-the-art contributions to the book are authored by leading experts; they tackle the relevant questions from the perspectives of radiation genetics, radiobiology, radioecology, radiation epidemiology and risk assessment.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Hypermutability Associated with Double-Strand Break Repair....Pages 1-11
A Test of Kimura’s Mutation-Rate Conjecture....Pages 13-18
Micro-algae as a Model System for Studying of Genotype Resistance to Oxidative Stress and Adaptive Response....Pages 19-30
Flavonoid Biosynthesis Genes in Wheat and Wheat-Alien Hybrids: Studies into Gene Regulation in Plants with Complex Genomes....Pages 31-41
Implications for Human and Environmental Health of Low Doses of Radiation....Pages 43-51
Role of Epigenetic Changes in Radiation-Induced Genome Instability....Pages 53-66
Radiation and Terror....Pages 67-69
Bystander Effects and Adaptive Responses Modulate In Vitro and In Vivo Biological Responses to Low Dose Ionizing Radiation....Pages 71-86
Inter-plant Communication of Genome Instability in Radiation Exposed Arabidopsis....Pages 87-97
Direct and Reverse Bystander Effect Between Irradiated and Unirradiated Organisms: The Modulating Role of Chemosignalling in Ecology....Pages 99-109
Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Genetic Predisposition to Myocardial Infarction and Comparison of Risk Factor Population Rates in Different Countries....Pages 111-125
Genomic Instability in the Offspring of Irradiated Parents....Pages 127-139
Low Dose Responses of Bone Marrow to X-Rays In Vivo....Pages 141-151
Pheromones and Adaptive Bystander-Mutagenesis in Mice....Pages 153-161
Statistical Model of Adaptation Risk Assessment of Chromosomal Instability....Pages 163-175
Effects of Bystander Factors Induced In Vivo in Blood of People Affected by Chernobyl Accident....Pages 177-185
Association Study of the Frequencies of Spontaneous and Induced Chromosome Aberrations in Human Lymphocytes....Pages 187-198
Radioecology of the Future: The Problem of Final Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes....Pages 199-218
Reproductive Effects from Chronic, Multigenerational, Low Dose Rate Exposures to Radiation....Pages 219-232
Aquatic Biota within the Chernobyl Accident Exclusion Zone: Consequences of the Long-Term Radiation Exposure....Pages 233-244
Endless Pursuit of DNA Double-Strand Break Ends....Pages 245-257
Facultativeness Principle and Generalized Approach to the Genome and Hereditary Variability....Pages 259-268
Recent Inserts of Transposable Elements Affect Structure and Functions of Human Genome....Pages 269-296
Ecological Risk Assessment to Benthic Biocenoses....Pages 297-305
Molecular Changes in Radiation Induced Thyroid Carcinomas in Mice....Pages 307-316
Study of Arabidopsis thaliana Patterns of Experimental Mutational Variability....Pages 317-330
Methods for Predicting 137Cs Contamination Levels of Soil Suitable to Obtain Plant and Fodder Products in Compliance with the Adopted Standards....Pages 331-338
Effects of Chronic Irradiation in Plant Populations....Pages 339-352
Reduced Rb1 Expression Causes Impaired Genome Stability in Bone-Cells and Predispose for Radiation-Induced Osteosarcoma....Pages 353-364
Biophysics of Heavy Ions....Pages 365-370
De Novo Mutations in Y-Chromosome STR Loci Revealed in Paternal Lineages of Siberian Tundra Nentsi Population....Pages 371-380
....Pages 381-388