A novel vertebrate system for the examination and direct comparison of the relative biological effectiveness for different radiation qualities and sources.

abstract：PURPOSE:To test whether radiolysis-induced fragmentation in frozen aqueous protein solution is dependent on solvent access to the surface of the protein or to the molecular mass of the polypeptide chain. MATERIALS AND METHODS:60Co gamma-irradiation of three proteins at -78 degrees C: lysozyme, citrate synthase and alp...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Audette M,Chen X,Houée-Levin C,Potier M,Le Maire M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the formation and subsequent reactions of the 5-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine cation radical (5-Me-2'-dC•(+)) in nucleosides and DNA-oligomers and compare to one-electron oxidized thymidine. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Employing electron spin resonance (ESR), cation radical formation and its reactions were invest...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Adhikary A,Kumar A,Palmer BJ,Todd AD,Heizer AN,Sevilla MD

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made of the intrinsic radiosensitivity of peripheral blood lymphocytes from normal individuals. Cell survival following in vitro high (1.55 Gy min-1) and low (0.0098 Gy min-1) dose-rate irradiation was obtained for single lymphocyte samples from three individuals in six experiments. Despite wide inter...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Elyan SA,West CM,Roberts SA,Hunter RD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The relationship between cellular telephone use and excretion of the melatonin metabolite 6-hydroxymelatonin sulfate (6-OHMS) was evaluated in two populations of male electric utility workers (Study 1, n=149; Study 2, n=77). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Participants collected urine samples and recorded cellular telep...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Burch JB,Reif JS,Noonan CW,Ichinose T,Bachand AM,Koleber TL,Yost MG

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) technique, which easily detects reciprocal translocations, is currently used to estimate doses in retrospective biological dosimetry, after suspected accidental overexposure to ionizing radiation (IR). This study of 42 cases aimed to verify the appropriateness of thi...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Grégoire E,Roy L,Buard V,Delbos M,Durand V,Martin-Bodiot C,Voisin P,Sorokine-Durm I,Vaurijoux A,Voisin P,Baldeyron C,Barquinero JF

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the induction and persistence of chromosome aberrations in mouse bone marrow cells after X-ray exposure and to detect differential involvement of individual chromosomes in translocations. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Male and female Swiss mice were exposed to 1 and 3 Gy of X-rays. Chromosome aberration...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Xiao Y,Darroudi F,Grigorova M,Natarajan AT

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:5-Formyluracil (5-foU) is a major derivative of thymine produced in DNA by ionizing radiation and various chemical oxidants. It has been previously shown that 5-foU in template DNA directs misincorporation of nucleotides by DNA polymerases during in vitro DNA synthesis. The present experiments were designed to ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Miyabe I,Zhang QM,Sugiyama H,Kino K,Yonei S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To calculate survival of human haemopoietic stem cells irradiated by alpha particles from 149Tb (initial energy 3.97 MeV) and 211At (average initial energy 6.87 MeV). METHODS:Following as closely as possible radiobiological data, Monte Carlo methods were used to calculate passages of alpha particles (originati...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Charlton DE,Utteridge TD,Allen BJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the relationships between the frequencies of radiation-induced chromosomal alterations and the extent of apoptosis in G0 human lymphocytes. MATERIAL AND METHODS:G0 human peripheral blood lymphocytes (HPBL) were X or gamma-irradiated, in the presence or absence of the repair inhibitor cytosine arab...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Belloni P,Meschini R,Czene S,Harms-Ringdahl M,Palitti F

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To estimate gamma-ray doses received by Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors using electron spin resonance (ESR) of tooth enamel and to compare the results with cytogenetic data. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Tooth enamel ESR was performed for 100 teeth donated from 69 Hiroshima survivors, and conventional cytogenetic exam...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Nakamura N,Miyazawa C,Sawada S,Akiyama M,Awa AA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioprotective agent WR-2721 is dephosphorylated to the free thiol form WR-1065 in vivo. The effects of WR-2721, WR-1065 and reduced glutathione on a mitochondrial lipid peroxidation system were compared. WR-2721 had no effect on mitochondrial lipid peroxidation in vitro, and could not prevent the inactivation of...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Tretter L,Rónai E,Szabados G,Hermann R,Andó A,Horváth I

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The need to determine a reliable relative biological effectiveness (RBE) value for alpha exposures has become important as reports remain controversial. Although a radiation-weighting factor of 20 has been designated for alpha particles, uncertainty exists on realistic value of the RBE of alpha radiation. The a...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Meenakshi C,Mohankumar MN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Human diseases associated with acute radiation responses are rare genetic disorders with common clinical and biological features including radiosensitivity, genomic instability, chromosomal aberrations, and frequently immunodeficiency. To determine what molecular assays are predictive of cellular radiosensitivi...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Joubert A,Zimmerman KM,Bencokova Z,Gastaldo J,Chavaudra N,Favaudon V,Arlett CF,Foray N

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Radiotherapy is an important treatment option for brain tumors, but the unavoidable irradiation of normal brain tissue can lead to delayed cognitive impairment. The mechanisms involved are still not well explained and, therefore, new tools to investigate the processes leading to the delayed symptoms of brain ir...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Parente A,Maciel ES,J O Dierckx RA,Langendijk JA,de Vries EFJ,Doorduin J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle dependence for the induction of 6-thioguanine-resistant mutation was investigated using synchronized mouse L5178Y cells after exposure to 4 Gy to 60Co gamma-rays or 1 Gy of 252Cf radiation (fission neutrons). Maximal mutation frequency was observed immediately after release from colcemid block (G2/M phase) ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Tauchi H,Nakamura N,Sawada S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of mouse skin collagen fibrils after treatment with 0.5, 1 and 2.5 Gy gamma-irradiation was studied by electron microscopy. Animals were sacrificed 1, 4 and 8 weeks after irradiation. Although there were areas where the normal parallel packing of fibrils was retained in some regions packing was interrupt...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Tzaphlidou M,Kounadi E,Leontiou I,Matthopoulos DP,Glaros D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a correlation between experimental probabilities of cell inactivation by charged particles and calculated probabilities for K-vacancy production in heavy atoms (C, N, O, P) of the DNA of cell nuclei is established. Both phenomena display a similar dependence upon the linear energy transfer (LET) of in...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Chetioui A,Despiney I,Guiraud L,Adoui L,Sabatier L,Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The tandemly repeated hexamers (TTAGGG)n present at the telomeric ends protect the human genome from a variety of environmental exposures including ionizing radiation. In order to find out the effect of chronic low dose radiation exposure, we have determined telomere length among newborns from high level natura...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Das B,Saini D,Seshadri M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster ovary cells were exposed to various heat treatments followed by X-irradiation, and the induction and repair of DNA strand breaks was studied using the alkaline unwinding technique. Heat treatments alone were found to cause DNA strand breakage only for temperatures greater than or equal to 43 degrees C,...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Dikomey E,Franzke J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse C3H 10T1/2 cells are most sensitive to radiation-induced neoplastic transformation in the G2/M-phase of the cell cycle. When synchronized 10T1/2 cells were exposed to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (TPA) after irradiation, transformation of cells not in the transformation-sensitive window was enhanced, but tran...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Wells RL,Cao J,Xing Y,He L,Elkind MM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate and optimize the radioprotective ability of the most potent fraction of an aqueous extract of Coronopus didymus in whole body gamma-irradiated Swiss albino mice and to evaluate the antioxidant status and lipid peroxidation of the livers of the surviving mice. To correlate the free radical scavenging...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Prabhakar KR,Veerapur VP,Parihar KV,Priyadarsini KI,Rao BS,Unnikrishnan MK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: To evaluate the antioxidant and radio-protective effects of Nigella sativa oil (NSO) and thymoquinone (TQ) on radiation-induced oxidative stress in brain tissue.Materials and methods: Fifty-four Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into six groups to test the radio-protective effectiveness of Nigella sativa oil a...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Demir E,Taysi S,Ulusal H,Kaplan DS,Cinar K,Tarakcioglu M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tikvah Alper's interest in science was broad, from scrapie to mammalian cells and cancer. Much of her own work focused on cell lethality, like that of many other radiobiologists, but this was natural because of the simplicity of the endpoint cell survival and its relevance to cancer therapy. Tikvah had broader interes...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Elkind MM

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminally differentiated cells usually do not divide and are, thus, reproductively dead. To elucidate the significance of radiation-enhanced differentiation to reproductive cell death, murine erythroid progenitor cells were gamma-irradiated in plasma clot cultures and the development of haemoglobinized clones was stu...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Schwenke K,Peterson HP,von Wangenheim KH,Feinendegen LE

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Element-specific biokinetic models are used to reconstruct doses to systemic tissues from internal emitters. Typically, a systemic model for a radionuclide explicitly depicts only its dominant repositories. Remaining tissues and fluids are aggregated into a pool called Other tissue in which the radionuclide ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Leggett RW,Tolmachev SY,Boice JD Jr

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Radiotherapy prescription dose and dose fractionation protocols vary little between individual patients having the same tumor grade and stage. To personalize radiotherapy a predictive model is needed to simulate radiation response. Previous modeling attempts with multiple variables and parameters have been sh...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Sunassee ED,Tan D,Ji N,Brady R,Moros EG,Caudell JJ,Yartsev S,Enderling H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cells derived from individuals in which the ataxia telangiectasia (ATM) gene is mutated are hypersensitive to ionizing radiation. Whether differences in ATM protein levels exist among human malignant glioma cell lines and whether such differences are correlated with cellular radiosensitivity were determined. M...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Chan DW,Gately DP,Urban S,Galloway AM,Lees-Miller SP,Yen T,Allalunis-Turner J

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I calculate the probability that a single high-energy ionizing particle or photon makes two widely spaced double-strand breaks in the same DNA molecule. Deletions (or inversions) between two breaks formed by the same incident particle are linear in radiation dose and occur even at extremely low dose-rates; deletions b...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Hutchinson F

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The increased bioactivity 'windows' of GSM 900 and 1800 MHz radiations, (Global System for Mobile telecommunications) revealed recently by us and published in this issue, manifesting themselves as a maximum decrease in the reproductive capacity of the insect Drosophila melanogaster, were examined to discover wh...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Panagopoulos DJ,Margaritis LH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It has been proposed previously that the ratio of complete to incomplete translocations as seen by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), the S value, can be a cytogenetic fingerprint of exposure to radiation of different qualities. Results from a previous study suggested that the S value is approximately 1...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Nakano M,Kodama Y,Ohtaki K,Itoh M,Nakamura N

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00