In vitro study on the effect of low level fast neutrons on cow hemoglobin

ABSTRACT

The induced changes in biophysical properties such as viscosity and turbidity of cow hemoglobin exposed to different low level fast neutron fluences in the range from 10[5] to 10 [8]n/cm [2]are examined. The data indicated that strong correlation relations between the changes in the parameters under investigation and the molecular weight of hemoglobin specimens due to neutron irradiation. Empirical for mulae are deduced to calculate the correspondence neutron fluence from the induced effects of viscosity as well as turbidity