Effects of pretreatment of mousewith low doses of internally deposited 147Pm on the mutagenicity ofboththe bone marrow lymphocytes and the spermatoblasts induced by subsequenthigh dose of internally deposited 147Pm were studied. Kunming male mice were injected from the tail vein with low doses of 147Pm(NO3)3 of 0.37, 3.7 and 37 Bq/gbody weight. Three days later the mice were injected with a high dose of147Pm(NO3)3 of 18.5 kBq/g body weight. The animals were sacrificedat 24 hafter the high dose injection. The results show that the bone marrow lymphocytesand the spermatoblasts pre-exposed in vivo to low doses of 147Pmcan produce anadaptive response. The radioadapted cells had a resistance to themutagenicity induced by the subsequent high dose of 147Pm, that is, theproportion of both the bone marrow lymphocytes containing micronuclei andthe sperm shape abnormalities was significantly lower than those forthe pure high dose group (P