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[EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND CURRENCY OF EXPERIMENT OF DISTANT RESULTS OF LEAD EXPOSITION]
G Pataraia1, T Bagashvili1, G Andronikashvili1
1I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Pathology; I.Beritashvili Experimental Biomedicine Centre, Laboratory of Experimental Neurology, Georgia.
Abstract:
In order to explore the distant results of exposition of little doses of lead, for the objective of the experiment model we have selected 32 mongral rats, of different age, but aged of both sex. Experimental animals were divided in two groups. During first two month from the beginning of the experiment, together with permissible food, animals were given the water, in which was open Pb(NO3)2 - to first group 1.5 mg on kg/weight and to II group 15 mg on kg/weight during the day and night. Before the beginning of the experiment, in the time of process and after it, observation was conducted, description and collection of photo-video materials about the behavior of animals, physiological parameters, possible change of weight, clear-sighted changes in appearance. During the autopsy of the animal, died during the experiment, it turned out that the reason of the death was acute heart failure caused by septicopyemia, the bilateral abscess pneumonia and right sided purulent pleurisy. The reason of the death of second animal was DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation) Syndrome and the polyorganic pathology caused by it. We made the Nembutal injection to third animal because there was detected the 50×40×20 sized subcutaneous formation on the right surface of the chest, that turned out to be the breast adenoma with cystic fibrosis. After the completion of the experiment of distant results of lead exposition, surviving rats before autopsy will be dropped to sleep with high dose of drugs in compliance with the "Guidelines of animal care and ethical behavior", taken material will be processed for histopathological (in case of necessity histochemical and imunomorphological) and electronic microscopic researches.
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