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Evans, Goodrich and Slaughter1 demonstrated a decrease in the sensitivity to X-irradiation of the skin of new-born rats at body temperatures of about 0° C. Increased resistance to doses of X-rays which were lethal at normal body-temperatures has been demonstrated2–3 at about 1° C. Weiss4 has shown that there is increased resistance to radiation in the testes of mice subjected to whole-body X-irradiation at body-temperatures in the region of 1° C. It has been suggested by all of these authors that profound hypothermia acts by virtue of the anoxia which follows respiratory and cardiac arrest, and it is known that anoxia reduces sensitivity to X-irradiation5.
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CATER, D., WEISS, L. Measurements of Oxygen Tension in the Tissues of Mice cooled to 1° C.. Nature 183, 1521–1522 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831521b0
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