STOREDB:STUDY1140 The National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository, USTUR, USA [DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1140]

Study meta-data


STUDYIDSTOREDB:STUDY1140
CREATEDON2019-05-02 15:39:40
MODIFIEDON2019-05-02 15:39:40
UPLOADERPaul Schofield
DOIDOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1140

Study details


STUDY NAME
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.