Frequencies of micronucleated lymphocytes and Epstein-Barr virus contamination in Altai region residents living near the Semipalatinsk atomic testing ground

✍ Scribed by Nicolai N. Ilyinskikh; T. M. Isaeva; I. I. Ivanchuk; E. A. Rogozin; E. N. Ilyinskikh

• Book ID: 101265037
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-6692
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2280(1998)31:1<11::aid-em3>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

We assessed the frequencies of micronucleated lym-have significantly high levels of antibodies to potenphocytes in 3,036 individuals living in 16 settle-tially oncogenic Epstein-Barr virus, in addition to ments in the western part of the Altai region. The high frequencies of micronucleated lymphocytes. majority of individuals with significantly high fre-

The considerable Epstein-Barr virus contamination quencies of micronucleated lymphocytes were de-among the residents in the radiation-polluted zone tected in settlements adjacent to the Semipalatinsk around the SATG was supposed to be caused by atomic testing ground (SATG). The most consider-immunodeficiency disorders in these individuals able genome instability was found in individuals and was correlated with high frequencies of microborn in the period of intensive testing at the SATG nucleated cells.