Blood, 1959, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 187-193.
© 1959 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
The Response of Eosinophils to Total-Body
X-Radiation of the Monkey
EARL ELDRED 1
1 Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California at Los
Angeles, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, California.
1. Circulating levels of eosinophils in the monkey have been followed before and after total-body exposure to a near median-lethal dose of x-radiation.
2. Eosinophils are moderately decreased during the first three days and
strongly depressed in the second and third weeks. During the fourth week
these cells rapidly reappear, and an absolute and relative eosinophilia ensues
which is maximal at the fifth to seventh week.
Submitted on November 19, 1956
Accepted on July 17, 1958