[An experimental study of the early changes in the body after simultaneous radiation exposure at a low dose and...

In experiments in rats it was shown that simultaneous effect of low dose radiation (12.9 cGy) and stress (immobilization) resulted in early adaptation-like changes (decrease in body weight, increase of adrenal gland weight, decrease in thymus weight, slowing down of blood coagulation). At the same time irradiation of immobilized animals prevented stressogenic disturbances such as depression of antiaggregation activity of vascular wall and decrease in leucocytes level. This was accompanied by the acceleration of mobilization of compensatory properties, that presumably is a basis for positive effects under combined influence.