Analysis of transforming genes in indirectly induced radiogenic thymomas in mice.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of definitive chemo-radiation or radiotherapy alone in patients with esophageal cancer. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of n = 238 patients with squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma of the esophagus treated with definitive ra...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Haefner MF,Lang K,Krug D,Koerber SA,Uhlmann L,Kieser M,Debus J,Sterzing F

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential radioprotective effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) against genotoxicity and cytotoxicity. The effect of WR-2721, as a representative of clinically used radioprotector, was compared with that of NAC, using the chromosomal aberration (CA) and micronucleus (MN) test syste...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Demirel C,Kilçiksiz S,Ay OI,Gürgül S,Ay ME,Erdal N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a clinical workflow of stereotactic volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for a lung tumor from planning to tumor position verification using 4D planning computed tomography (CT) and 4D cone-beam CT (CBCT). A 4D CT scanner, an Anzai belt and a BodyFix were employed to obtain 10-phase respiratory-correlate...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakagawa K,Haga A,Kida S,Masutani Y,Yamashita H,Takahashi W,Sakumi A,Saotome N,Shiraki T,Ohtomo K,Iwai Y,Yoda K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates whether in-room computed tomography (CT)-based adaptive treatment planning (ATP) is robust against interfractional location variations, namely, interfractional organ motions and/or applicator displacements, in 3D intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) for uterine cervical cancer. In ATP, the radiat...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Oku Y,Arimura H,Nguyen TT,Hiraki Y,Toyota M,Saigo Y,Yoshiura T,Hirata H

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper is part of an attempt at finally reconstructing the realities of nuclear tests and their human effects near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. As a first step, it tries to reconstruct the overall image of nuclear tests and their human effects. Our data are 199 written testimonies of those affected by radiati...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuo M,Kawano N,Satoh K,Apsalikov KN,Moldagaliev T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with various cancers, modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) before treatment has predicted prognoses after antitumor therapy. This study aimed to assess whether pretreatment mGPS also has predictive value in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) after radiotherapy. A retrospective review a...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kikuchi K,Nakamura R,Segawa T,Oikawa H,Ariga H

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Disufiram (a drug used for the treatment of alcoholism) protected microsomal membranes and plasmid DNA against damages induced by gamma-radiation. The peroxidation of membrane lipids increased linearly with the radiation dose up to 600 Gy, and the presence of disulfiram inhibited membrane lipid peroxidation as assayed...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Gandhi NM,Gopalaswamy UV,Nair Cr

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of proton irradiation on the function and structure of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa peroxiredoxin (PaPrx). Polyacrylamide gel demonstrated that PaPrx proteins exposed to proton irradiation at several doses exhibited simultaneous formation of high molecular weight (HMW) complexes and fragmenta...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Park CH,Lee SS,Kim KR,Jung MH,Lee SY,Cho EJ,Singh S,Chung BY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models for the action of mixed irradiation with two types of radiation have been proposed in the last two decades, although the superiority or inferiority of these models is not completely elucidated. However, mixed irradiation is sometimes composed of more than two types of radiation, and for this type of mix...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Suzuki S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of an Electronic Personal Dosemeter (Siemens EPD) for cosmic-radiation dosimetry at aviation altitudes was examined on eight international flights between March and September, 1998. The EPD values (Hepd) of the dose equivalent from penetrating radiation, Hp(10), were assumed to be almost the same as ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yasuda H,Fujitaka K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic irradiation using a linear accelerator, radiation is administered intermittently and one treatment session often requires 30 min or a longer time. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of fractionation and dose per fraction on ce...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ogino H,Shibamoto Y,Sugie C,Ito M

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Previous studies have demonstrated that X-ray irradiation affects angiogenesis in tumors. Here, we studied the effects of gamma-ray irradiation on boron-10 compound accumulation in a murine tumor model. The mouse squamous cell carcinoma was irradiated with gamma-ray before BSH ((10)B-enriched borocaptate sodium) admin...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Liu Y,Nagata K,Masunaga S,Suzuki M,Kashino G,Kinashi Y,Tanaka H,Sakurai Y,Maruhashi A,Ono K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that exposure to ionizing radiation accelerates the aging process has been actively investigated at ABCC-RERF since 1958, when longitudinal cohort studies of the Adult Health Study (AHS) and the Life Span Study (LSS) were initiated. In their 1975 overall review of aging studies related to the atomic bom...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sasaki H,Kodama K,Yamada M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 239Pu distribution in the 12.5-day-old rat conceptus was compared between in vivo and in vitro experimental systems to establish a possible mechanism of cross-placental transfer of this radionuclide. In the in vivo study, plutonium citrate solution was injected intravenously to pregnant Wistar rats. In the in vitr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takahashi S,Sato H,Kubota Y,Inaba J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole brain irradiation (WBI) has become an indispensible tool in the treatment of head and neck cancer, and it has greatly improved patient survival rate and total survival time. In addition, prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) has dramatically decreased the incidence of brain metastatic carcinoma. However, WBI ma...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Xu M,Fan Q,Zhang J,Chen Y,Xu R,Chen L,Zhao P,Tian Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBEs) are detected in cells that are not irradiated but receive signals from treated cells. The present study explored these bystander effects in a U87MG multicellular tumour spheroid model. A medium transfer technique was employed to induce the bystander effect, and colony format...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Faqihi F,Neshastehriz A,Soleymanifard S,Shabani R,Eivazzadeh N

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The NCRP has recently defined RBE values and a new quantity (Gy-Eq) for use in estimation of deterministic effects in space shielding and operations. The NCRP's RBE for neutrons is left ambiguous and not fully defined. In the present report we will suggest a complete definition of neutron RBE consistent with the NCRP ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wilson JW,Kim MH,De Angelis G,Cucinotta FA,Yoshizawa N,Badavi FF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation induces biological effects not only in irradiated cells but also in non-irradiated cells, which is called the bystander effect. Recently, in vivo and in vitro experiments have suggested that both gap junction hemichannel connexin43 (Cx43) and extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) released from ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohshima Y,Tsukimoto M,Harada H,Kojima S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XRCC4 is a protein associated with DNA Ligase IV, which is thought to join two DNA ends at the final step of DNA double-strand break repair through non-homologous end joining. In response to treatment with ionizing radiation or DNA damaging agents, XRCC4 undergoes DNA-PK-dependent phosphorylation. Furthermore, Ser260 ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sharma MK,Imamichi S,Fukuchi M,Samarth RM,Tomita M,Matsumoto Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported the usefulness of the field-in-field (FIF) technique in breast radiotherapy. However, the methods for the FIF technique used in these studies vary. These methods were classified into three categories. We simulated a radiotherapy plan with each method and analyzed the outcomes. In the firs...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tanaka H,Hayashi S,Hoshi H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the distance at which 50% of the individuals exposed to the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki died, ostensibly from their exposure to ionizing radiation. It is difficult to convert most of these distance estimates to a dose-related LD50, since radiation shielding was igno...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Fujita S,Kato H,Schull WJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:It has previously been demonstrated that the presence of fetal bovine serum is necessary for TGF-β3 (transforming growth factor beta 3)-dependent elimination of low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) in cells by 1 h of low-dose-rate γ-irradiation (0.2-0.3 Gy/h). The purpose of the present study was to identify the seru...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Edin NF

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory motion management is a huge challenge in radiation therapy. Respiratory motion induces temporal anatomic changes that distort the tumor volume and its position. In this study, a markerless tumor-tracking algorithm was investigated by performing phase recognition during stereotactic body radiation therapy (...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Bhusal Chhatkuli R,Demachi K,Uesaka M,Nakagawa K,Haga A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since December 2009, after breast-conserving surgery for Stage 0-I cancer of the left breast, 21 women with relatively pendulous breasts underwent computed tomography prone and supine simulations. The adjuvant radiotherapy was 50 Gy in 25 fractions to the left breast alone. Four plans--conventional wedged tangents and...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chen JL,Cheng JC,Kuo SH,Chan HM,Huang YS,Chen YH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to quantify the changes of tumor blood flow (BF) in cervical cancer after radiation therapy by using perfusion computed tomography (CT), and to examine the difference between maximum slope (MS) and single-input one-compartment model (SOCM) methods. Fourteen consecutive patients who receiv...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shibuya K,Tsushima Y,Horisoko E,Noda SE,Taketomi-Takahashi A,Ohno T,Amanuma M,Endo K,Nakano T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficacy of different schedules of HDR brachytherapy in concurrent chemoradiotherapy was evaluated. The study compared the effectiveness of the two HDR brachytherapy schedules which have the same Biological Effective Dose (BED) in locally advanced cervical carcinoma that was treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tharavichitkul E,Klunkin P,Lorvidhaya V,Sukthomya V,Chakrabhandu S,Pukanhaphan N,Chitapanarux I,Galalae R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to investigate the normal tissue damage caused by carbon-ion therapy. We measured chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes before, during, and after radiotherapy, using the techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and chemically induced premature chromosome co...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Lee R,Yamada S,Yamamoto N,Miyamoto T,Ando K,Durante M,Tsujii H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00