Dec, 2015
Electron probe X-ray microanalysis of boar and inobuta testes after the Fukushima accident
JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH
- Volume
- 56
- Number
- First page
- I42
- Last page
- I47
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1093/jrr/rrv070
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
We aimed to investigate the effect of chronic radiation exposure associated with the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident on the testes of boar and inobuta (a hybrid of Sus scrofa and Sus scrofa domestica). This study examined the contamination levels of radioactive caesium (Cs), especially Cs-134 and Cs-137, in the testis of both boar and inobuta during 2012, after the Fukushima accident. Morphological analysis and electron-probe X-ray microanalysis (EPMA) were also undertaken on the testes. The Cs-134 and Cs-137 levels were 6430 +/- 23 and 6820 +/- 32 Bq/kg in the boar testes, and 755 +/- 13 and 747 +/- 17 Bq/kg in the inobuta testes, respectively. The internal and external exposure of total Cs-134 and Cs-137 in the boar testes were 47.1 mGy and 176.2 mGy, respectively, whereas in the inobuta testes, these levels were 6.09 mGy and 59.8 mGy, respectively. Defective spermatogenesis was not detected by the histochemical analysis of radiation-exposed testes for either animal. In neither animal were Cs molecules detected, using EPMA. In conclusion, we showed that adverse radiation-induced effects were not detected in the examined boar and inobuta testes following the chronic radiation exposure associated with the FNPP accident.
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- DOI : 10.1093/jrr/rrv070
- ISSN : 0449-3060
- eISSN : 1349-9157
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000370272400007