Marinescu 2011
Marinescu 2011
Marinescu 2011
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living bone marrow rabbit as “detector” of RM. They found that, under the influence of
the “emitters” (placed in quartz tubes, near “detector”), the number of marrow cells in a
state of division was significantly increased compared with that of marrow unexposed
to MR. In turn, the great neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu, in his research on aging
mechanisms and on the rol of oxidative and electrophysiological processes in nervous
activity, carried out together with N. Ionescu-Şişeşti and O. Sager a series of
investigations using the Brauner-Soru technique and the metod with yeast as “detector”.
The study of the variation of mitogenetic intensity (IMG) of human blood in relation to
age showed that the most intense MR are found in children, IMG gradually decreasing in
adults and old age and becaming practically zero to 90 years. In the case of nervous
system diseases (such as Friedreich’s disease, cerebellar heredo-ataxia, familial
myopathy and Charcot-Marie disease), IMG of the blood from pacients falls below the
level which is characteristic for healthy persons of the same age. Also, in the case of
rabbit nerves, tied off or sectioned, it was found that IMG at central zones is much higher
than at the terminal ones. The results obtained by Gheorghe Marinescu and his
colleagues were presented at The First International Congress of Electro-Radio-
Biology, at Venice in September 1934. He also presented the same results at
Roumanian Academy in 1935, and published them the following year in “The Memoirs
of Scientific Section” of this Academy. In 1939, Gheorghe Marinescu published one of
the first monographies on mitogenetic radiations. Unfortunately, this monograph was
not translated into an international language.