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Phospholipid composition of blood erythrocytes of tundra voles (Microtus oeconomus Pall.) inhabiting under different radioecological conditions

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Phospholipid composition has been studied in blood erythrocytes of tundra voles Microtus oeconomus inhabiting territories with normal and increased levels of natural radioactivity in different phases of the population cycle. It has been shown that rearrangement in the lipid component of blood erythrocyte membranes of tundra voles from radioactively polluted areas are associated with intensification of the lipid peroxidation (LPO) processes and are similar to those observed at the organism natural aging. It has been noted that the capability for peroxide oxidation in erythrocyte lipids is one of the most sensitive stages of the LPO processes to action of the low-intensity radiation in the natural habitat of animals. The change of the populational cycle phases, which is accompanied by hormonal rearrangements in the animal body, produces an essential effect on the degree of expression of the radiation-induced changes of the studied parameters.

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  1. Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia

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  2. Emmanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    L. N. Shishkina

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Original Russian Text © O. G. Shevchenko, L. N. Shishkina, 2010, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 37–44.

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Shevchenko, O.G., Shishkina, L.N. Phospholipid composition of blood erythrocytes of tundra voles (Microtus oeconomus Pall.) inhabiting under different radioecological conditions. J Evol Biochem Phys 46, 44–52 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093010010056

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