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The examination of peripheral blood lymphocytes from persons exposed t
o low-dose radiation after the Chernobyl accident demonstrated that th
e exposure to radiation at the time of the accident and further living
in the contaminated territory entail a significant increase in the nu
mber of cells with a large thick nucleus and scare cytoplasm. Such mor
phological picture may be attributed to stable adaptation typical for
persistent activation of the general adaptation syndrome and is explai
ned by adaptation-stress relations.