Abstract
Summary
Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of source of dietary carbohydrate on survival time of mice exposed to multiple sublethal doses of total body x-irradiation. Findings indicate that average survival time of x-irradiated mice was significantly longer on a glucose-containing diet than on rations containing sucrose, dextrin or cornstarch as the source of dietary carbohydrate.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.