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Hormesis in effect of low uranium doses on organisms
1Institute for Toxicology and Forensic Chemistry, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic.
Sbornik Lekarsky
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Uranium nitrate applied daily in small amounts per os (0.5-17 mg/l in drinking water) or per cuttim (0.2-0.8 g/kg) exerts positive effect on metabolism of phosphate ions by red blood cells in vitro. This positive effect changes to the negative one with increasing dose or exposure time. It may be assumed that most other cells in the organism are affected in the same way as erythrocytes and that similar effect might be observed with other harmful agents or substances.