Old toxicology beliefs are myths?
As an example of hormesis, in an interesting study, Brenda E Rodgers, of Texas Tech University in Lubbock gave mice a small dose of radiation by caging them in a Ukrainian forest around 1.5 km from where the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred 18 years ago. It took about 10 to 45 days for the mice to get exposed to 0.1 Gy of radiation dose depending upon the location from the site of accident. Soon after the animals had been exposed to 0.1 Gy radiations, they were removed and bombarded with a high radiation lab dose of 1.5 Gy. Later blood tests showed that the mice that were kept in the site close to Chernobyl accident developed only half of chromosome breaks as opposed to controls who were straight bombarded with 1.5 Gy of dose...
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