Skin Injuries Reduce Survival and Modulate Corticosterone, C-Reactive Protein, Complement Component 3, IgM, and Prostaglandin E2 after Whole-Body Reactor-Produced Mixed Field (n + -Photons) Irradiation
Figure 1
Survival after radiation combined injury depended on injury type and timing of injury. mice per group and per time point. A representative data set is presented here. No SD is included. Similar results were reproducible in other independent experiments. (a) Skin wounding before or after irradiation reduced 30-day survival after irradiation. Wounding after irradiation decreased 30-day survival more than wounding before irradiation. (b) Skin burning after but not before irradiation reduced 30-day survival after irradiation. wnd: wounding; brn: burning; rad: radiation at 3 Gy (n/n + = 0.94).
