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THREE parallel series of irradiation have been run simultaneously to compare, in rats, the effects of acute and chronic whole-body irradiation by cobalt-60 γ-rays and to establish the radio-modifying effects of cold acclimatization in the latter condition1.
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GHYS, R. Radioprotection by Acclimatization to Cold. Nature 198, 603 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198603a0
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