STUDYID | STOREDB:STUDY1140 |
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CREATEDON | 2019-05-02 15:39:40 |
MODIFIEDON | 2019-05-02 15:39:40 |
UPLOADER | Paul Schofield |
DOI | DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1140 |
STUDY NAME | ||
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The National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository, USTUR, USA | ||
STUDY STATUS | ||
Published: Open access to everyone | ||
DATA SHARING POLICY | ||
CC-Attribution | ||
COUNTRY | ||
United States | ||
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | ||
Sergei Tolmachev | ||
SPECIES | ||
Homo sapiens | ||
SIZE OF COHORT | ||
0-999 | ||
EXPOSURE CONTEXT | ||
Occupational | ||
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL EXPOSURE | ||
Internal | ||
TYPE OF INTERNAL EXPOSURE | ||
mixed | ||
RADIONUCLIDE | ||
actinide | ||
AGE AT EXPOSURE | ||
Adult | ||
EXPOSURE PATTERN | ||
Multiple | ||
DOSE RATE | ||
Mixed | ||
BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE AVAILABLE | ||
Yes | ||
ECOLOGICAL DATA | ||
No | ||
STUDY DESCRIPTION | ||
The National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository (NHRTR) within the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR) holds around 9,000 frozen and formalin-fixed tissue samples from 40 whole- and 92 partial-body USTUR donors, and around 10,000 acid-digested tissue samples for radioactivity determination (Tolmachev et al. 2011). The role of USTUR, a US federally funded institution, is to study the biokinetics and internal dosimetry of actinides in occupationally exposed individuals who volunteer their post-mortem tissues for scientific use. NHRTR also houses historical frozen, ashed, dried, and plastic-embedded bone samples from the radium studies carried out by Argonne National Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the New Jersey Radium Research Project. It also houses the materials from the historic Radium dial painters studies (see https://ustur.wsu.edu/nhrtr/). Materials are freely available subject to ethical and legal permissions. |