TY - JOUR
T1 - A comprehensive dose evaluation project concerning animals affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
T2 - Its set-up and progress
AU - Takahashi, Shintaro
AU - Inoue, Kazuya
AU - Suzuki, Masatoshi
AU - Urushihara, Yusuke
AU - Kuwahara, Yoshikazu
AU - Hayashi, Gohei
AU - Shiga, Soichiro
AU - Fukumoto, Motoi
AU - Kino, Yasushi
AU - Sekine, Tsutomu
AU - Abe, Yasuyuki
AU - Fukuda, Tomokazu
AU - Isogai, Emiko
AU - Yamashiro, Hideaki
AU - Fukumoto, Manabu
N1 - Funding Information:
This project could not have been accomplished without all the people who were involved in the study. We greatly appreciate the contribution of all of these people. This work was supported in part by the Emergency Budget for the Reconstruction of Northeastern Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan; the Discretionary Expense of the President of Tohoku University; the Research and Development Projects for Application in Promoting New Policy of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishers, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Japan; and the Program for Promotion of Basic and Applied Research for Innovations in Biooriented Industry, BRAIN, Japan. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by the Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [KAKENHI Grant No. 26253022].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Author.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - It is not an exaggeration to say that, without nuclear accidents or the analysis of radiation therapy, there is no way in which we are able to quantify radiation effects on humans. Therefore, the livestock abandoned in the ex-evacuation zone and euthanized due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident are extremely valuable for analyzing the environmental pollution, its biodistribution, the metabolism of radionuclides, dose evaluation and the influence of internal exposure. We, therefore, sought to establish an archive system and to open it to researchers for increasing our understanding of radiation biology and improving protection against radiation. The sample bank of animals affected by the FNPP accident consists of frozen tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens, dose of radionuclides deposited, etc., with individual sampling data.
AB - It is not an exaggeration to say that, without nuclear accidents or the analysis of radiation therapy, there is no way in which we are able to quantify radiation effects on humans. Therefore, the livestock abandoned in the ex-evacuation zone and euthanized due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident are extremely valuable for analyzing the environmental pollution, its biodistribution, the metabolism of radionuclides, dose evaluation and the influence of internal exposure. We, therefore, sought to establish an archive system and to open it to researchers for increasing our understanding of radiation biology and improving protection against radiation. The sample bank of animals affected by the FNPP accident consists of frozen tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens, dose of radionuclides deposited, etc., with individual sampling data.
KW - animals
KW - archives
KW - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
KW - radiation effects
KW - sample bank
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U2 - 10.1093/jrr/rrv069
DO - 10.1093/jrr/rrv069
M3 - Article
C2 - 26687285
AN - SCOPUS:84959916839
SN - 0449-3060
VL - 56
SP - i36-i41
JO - Journal of Radiation Research
JF - Journal of Radiation Research
ER -
