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R C Christensen

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Guidelines for health physics program content: baccalaureate level.

Guidelines are suggested for baccalaureate health physics program content based on the schema used in a prior publication. The Guidelines assume a program with a primary emphasis on generalized health physics and presuppose an institutional breadth coursework requirement. Methods of strengthening areas of current general weakness are proposed, and one version of a coursework model is presented. Comments to the author and the Manpower and Professional Education Committee of the Health Physics Society are welcomed.

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Cellular immune response to human cytomegalovirus. I. Lymphocyte transformation studies in the rabbit.

The lymphocyte transformation assay was used to monitor the cellular immune response of rabbits sensitized to cytomegalovirus (CMV). Peripheral blood lymphocytes from animals inoculated with purified virus were specifically stimulated by crude or twice-banded CMV. Blood cells from rabbits immunized to herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) responded to that antigen but not to CMV. Viable or heated CMV preparations stimulated unwashed blood cells as efficiently as washed cells. Furthermore, preincubation of stimulating antigen with anti-CMV serum did not prevent lymphocyte activation. Lymphoid cells readily stimulated by virus antigen were not stimulated by cells transformed by CMV or HSV-1.

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