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STEARNER et al. have observed that young White Leghorn chicks1 are protected against radiation mortality by epinephrine in solution in oil. I have repeated these experiments with Rhode Island chicks, which are more radio-resistant than White Leghorns, reproducing Stearner's conditions so far as the number and time of injections and the amounts of epinephrine injected are concerned.
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Beaymariage, M-L., Internat. J. Appl. Rad. Isotopes (in the press).
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BEAUMARIAGE, ML. Inability of Epinephrine to protect Rhode Island Chicks against the Lethal Action of X-Rays. Nature 182, 803–804 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182803a0
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