INFLUENCE OF VITAMIN E ON THE NUMBER OF LYMPHOCYTE OF SPLEEN AND THYMUS AND THE BLASTOGENIC RESPONSES OF SPLENO- CYTES OF MICE EXPOSED TO RADIATION / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

Mice were fed basic diet or basic diet plus vitamin E 50 mg or 500 mg per kg of diet for 4 weeks. The animals were killed at 6 or 14 days after one exposure to 400 rad X-ray whole body radiation and the number of lymphocytes of spleen and thymus and blastogenic responses of splenocytes were tested. The results showed; (1) the number of lymphocytes both in spleen and thymus were significantly decreased in mice fed basic diet in com-parision with that in mice fed with basic diet plus vitamin E (P