Radiation protection by disulfiram: protection of membrane and DNA in vitro and in vivo against gamma-radiation.

abstract：:Halobacterium salinarium, a member of the extremely halophilic archaebacteria, contains a C50-carotenoid namely bacterioruberin. We have previously reported the high resistance of this organism against the lethal actions of DNA-damaging agents including ionizing radiation and ultraviolet light (UV). In this study, we ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shahmohammadi HR,Asgarani E,Terato H,Saito T,Ohyama Y,Gekko K,Yamamoto O,Ide H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated cytogenetic damage by measuring the frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) in peripheral blood and buccal mucosa of head-and-neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. MNC frequencies were assessed in 31 patients before, during, and after radiotherapy, and in 17 healthy controls matched for ge...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Minicucci EM,Kowalski LP,Maia MA,Pereira A,Ribeiro LR,de Camargo JL,Salvadori DM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of oncogenes was studied in 12 types of 178 mouse tumors induced by radiations and chemicals. DNA was analyzed in tumors in which the overexpression of oncogenes was noted. Amplification of the myc oncogene was found in chemically induced sarcomas, but not in sarcomas induced by radiation. Activation of...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Niwa O,Muto M,Suzuki F,Kominami R,Yokoro K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a curative local treatment for large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important issue. Here, we investigated the dose homogeneity, safety and antitumor effectiveness of proton beam therapy (PBT) using a patch-field technique for large HCC. Data from nine patients (aged 52-79 years) with large HCC tr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakamura M,Fukumitsu N,Kamizawa S,Numajiri H,Nemoto Murofushi K,Ohnishi K,Aihara T,Ishikawa H,Okumura T,Tsuboi K,Sakurai H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the nature of the genes that contribute to the radiosensitivity of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs), we analyzed the gene expression profiles detected in HSPCs irradiated with 2 Gy X-rays after culture with or without an optimal combination of hematopoietic cytokines. Highly purified CD34(+...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tsujiguchi T,Hirouchi T,Monzen S,Tabuchi Y,Takasaki I,Kondo T,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated low-flux X-ray micro-planar beams (MPBs) using a laboratory-scale industrial X-ray generator (60 kV/20 mA) with custom-made collimators with three different peak/pitch widths (50/200 μm, 100/400 μm, 50/400 μm). To evaluate normal skin reactions, the thighs of C3H/HeN mice were exposed to 100 and 200 Gy MP...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hong Z,Zenkoh J,Le B,Gerelchuluun A,Suzuki K,Moritake T,Washio M,Urakawa J,Tsuboi K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To elucidate the mechanism underlying the in vivo radioprotection activity by Zn-containing, heat-treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast (Zn-yeast). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Zn-yeast suspension was administered into C3H/He mice immediately after whole body irradiation (WBI) at 7.5 Gy. Bone marrow was extracted fr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ueno M,Imadome K,Iwakawa M,Anzai K,Ikota N,Imai T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to investigate whether rhEGF protects radiation induced intestine injury without compromising antitumor effect of radiation in murine system. A radiation induced intestinal injury model was established in mice by whole body irradiation. Using this model, 4 groups were set; control, rhEGF (100 µg/kg intr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Oh H,Seong J,Kim W,Park S,Koom WS,Cho NH,Song M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paired Fricke solutions, made up from light water or heavy water and 0.8N in H2SO4 and 1 mM in Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 and NaCl, were calibrated with 60Co gamma rays and with mixed neutron and gamma radiation from a 252Cf source. Absorbance increases, AL and AH, in light- and heavy-water Fricke dosimeters, respectively, increa...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Himit M,Itoh T,Endo S,Fujikawa K,Hoshi M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the present levels of 239,240Pu and U in residents living near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, more than 70 bone samples were obtained at autopsy. The subjects ranged in age from 30 to 86 years (mean 59.3+/-12.9). Most of the samples consisted of victims who died of various diseases. Plutonium and U w...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamamoto M,Hoshi M,Sakaguchi A,Shinohara K,Kurihara O,Apsalikov KN,Gusev BI

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disease and it is caused by neuronal death in the brain. Recent studies have shown that non-ionizing radiofrequency (RF) radiation has some beneficial cognitive effects in animal models of AD. In this study, we examined the effe...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Lee JS,Kim JY,Kim HJ,Kim JC,Lee JS,Kim N,Park MJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the outcomes and adverse events for 300 men with prostate cancer treated with 125iodine (125I) brachytherapy with and without external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) at a single institution in Japan. Between February 2005 and November 2011, 300 consecutive patients with clinically...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Maki S,Itoh Y,Kubota S,Okada T,Nakahara R,Ito J,Kawamura M,Naganawa S,Yoshino Y,Fujita T,Kato M,Gotoh M,Ikeda M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrosomes function in proper cell division in animal cells. The centrosome consists of a pair of centrioles and the surrounding pericentriolar matrix (PCM). After cytokinesis, daughter cells each acquire one centrosome, which subsequently duplicates at the G1/S phase in a manner that is dependent upon CDK2/cyclin-E ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shimada M,Komatsu K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physico-chemical form in which plutonium enters the body influences the lung distribution and the transfer rate from lungs to blood. In the present study, we evaluated the early lung damage and macrophage activation after pulmonary contamination of plutonium of various preparation modes which produce different sol...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Van der Meeren A,Gremy O,Renault D,Miroux A,Bruel S,Griffiths N,Tourdes F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT), high doses per fraction are usually used and the dose delivery pattern is different from that of conventional radiation. The daily dose is usually given intermittently over a longer time compared with conventional radiotherapy. During prolonged radiation delivery, s...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shibamoto Y,Miyakawa A,Otsuka S,Iwata H

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is a well-known bioresponse under low-dose or low-dose-rate exposures. Although disorder of the DNA repair function, non-targeted effects and accumulation of cells in G2 have been experimentally observed, the mechanism for inducing HRS by long-term irradiation is still unclear. On the basi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuya Y,Tsutsumi K,Sasaki K,Yoshii Y,Kimura T,Date H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulse radiolysis technique has been employed to determine the initiation and propagation rates of different transient species involved in the polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) in aqueous solutions. Polymerization by anionic mechanism has been observed to be faster than by the free-radical mechanism. T...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Acharya A,Mohan H,Sabharwal S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review was to evaluate the impact of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status on disease recurrence in patients treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A literature search was conducted and a total of three studies were analyzed. ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ochiai S,Nomoto Y,Watanabe Y,Yamashita Y,Toyomasu Y,Kawamura T,Takada A,Noriko,Sakuma H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low doses (2.5-15 cGy) of X-irradiation two months prior to a second exposure to a sublethal dose enhanced the survival rate in mice. Optimal and significant increase was observed with 5-10 cGy. Endogenous spleen colony counts (endo-CFUs) after 7 Gy increased by a factor of about 1.7 in mice pre-irradiated with 5-10 c...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yonezawa M,Takeda A,Misonoh J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the lifetime hazards of ionizing radiation exposure, 1680 beagles received whole-body, 60-Cobalt gamma exposures or sham-exposures during development. Eight groups of 120 dogs each received mean doses of 16 or 83 cGy at 8 (preimplantation), 28 (embryonic), or 55 (late fetal) days postcoitus (dpc), or 2 (ne...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Benjamin SA,Saunders WJ,Angleton GM,Lee AC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern treatment machines have shown small inter-unit variability regarding beam data. Recently, vendor-provided average beam data, such as the Representative Beam Data (RBD) of the TrueBeam (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, USA), has been used for modeling of the Eclipse (Varian Medical Systems) treatment plann...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Isono M,Akino Y,Mizuno H,Tanaka Y,Masai N,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation killing of tumor cells by ionizing radiation is best described by the linear-quadratic (LQ) model. Research into the underlying mechanisms of α- and β-inactivation has suggested that different molecular targets (DNA in different forms) and different microdosimetric energy deposits (spurs versus electron ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chapman JD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the radiological response and clinical outcome in patients with femoral bone metastases after radiotherapy. 102 consecutive patients with femoral metastases without pathological fracture were treated by surgery or radiotherapy between 2002 and 2005. Twelve of them initially treated with surgery were exclu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Harada H,Katagiri H,Kamata M,Yoshioka Y,Asakura H,Hashimoto T,Furutani K,Takahashi M,Sakahara H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effect of the sympathetic nervous system on radiation-induced apoptosis in jejunal crypt cells, apoptosis levels were compared in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), animals which are a genetic hyperfunction model of the sympathetic nervous system, and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). SHR and W...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuu M,Shichijo K,Nakamura Y,Ikeda Y,Naito S,Ito M,Okaichi K,Sekine I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a mechanism in which low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is permanently removed, induced by low-dose-rate (LDR) (0.2-0.3 Gy/h for 1 h) but not by high-dose-rate priming (0.3 Gy at 40 Gy/h) was investigated. One HRS-negative cell line (NHIK 3025) and two HRS-positive cell lines (T-47D, T98G) were used....

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Edin NJ,Sandvik JA,Vollan HS,Reger K,Görlach A,Pettersen EO

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New precision radiotherapy (RT) techniques reduce the uncertainties in localizing soft and moving tumors. However, there are still many uncontrollable internal organ movements. In our study, patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NA-CRT) for rectal cancer were evaluated to determine inter-fraction mesor...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Alickikus ZA,Kuru A,Aydin B,Akcay D,Gorken IB

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Space Environment Service (ISES) is an international organization for space weather forecasts and belongs to the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). There are eleven ISES forecast centers in the world, and Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) runs the Japanese one. We make forecasts on t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Watari S,Tomita F

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct irradiation may cause malfunctioning of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Therefore, a treatment plan that does not involve direct irradiation of CIEDs should be formulated. However, CIEDs may be directly exposed to radiation because of the sudden intrafractional movement of the patient. The proba...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakamura K,Aoyama T,Kaneda N,Otsuji M,Minami Y,Sakuragi A,Nakamura M

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the neutron energy dependency of cell killing and mutation induction at the hprt locus in Chinese hamster V79 cells. Monoenergetic neutrons at 0.32, 0.57, and 1.2 MeV were generated at the Hiroshima University Radiobiological Research Accelerator (HIRRAC) Facility, and were used to irradiate cells. Th...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kubota N,Okada S,Nagatomo S,Ozawa F,Inada T,Hill CK,Endo S,Komatsu K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3D image-guided brachytherapy (3D-IGBT) has become a standard therapy for cervical cancer. However, the use of 3D-IGBT is limited in East and Southeast Asia. This study aimed to clarify the current usage patterns of 3D-IGBT for cervical cancer in East and Southeast Asia. A questionnaire-based survey was performed in 1...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Okonogi N,Wakatsuki M,Mizuno H,Fukuda S,Cao J,Kodrat H,Lau FN,Calaguas MJ,de Los Reyes RH,Chansilpa Y,Uddin AFMK,Adylkhanov T,Cho CK,Tsegmed U,Hoang NC,Ohno T,Nakano T,Kato S,Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia.

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00