[Immunological aspects of the study of contingents of population exposed to ionizing radiation effects as the consequence of the Chernobyl AES accident]. / Immunologicheskie aspekty izucheniia kontingentov naseleniia, podvergshikhsia vozdeistviiu ioniziruiushchei radiatsii v rezul'tate avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

The immune system was examined in those who participated in the liquidation of accident sequelae at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station and the population exposed to ionizing radiation. Alteration in surface antigenic markers of basic regulatory subpopulations of immunocompetent cells and metabolic changes are caused by radiation and co-existent somatic diseases. Typing for HLA antigens and proteins with a genetically determined phenotype revealed characteristic features of their distribution for the general population.