[Neutrophil and lymphocyte dose curves in relatively uniform human whole body irradiation (based on data of the accident at the Chernobyl AES)].

The authors have summed up the experience in a study of regularities of the bone marrow syndrome in persons exposed to rather homogeneous gamma-beam irradiation during the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station (127 cases). Hematological data were processed by computer, and empiric dose curves of neutrophils and lymphocytes were obtained within the range of 0.5-12 Gy by regressive analysis. These curves were compared with the previous data on the time course of these cells after whole-body irradiation. New data were obtained on the nature of a course of a granulocyte recovery phase at a dose level over 5 Gy. Some features of the time course of lymphocytes in persons exposed to radiation during the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, were considered.