abstract：:Pre-implantation embryos of the mouse were studied for the occurrence of an adaptive response, i.e. induction of radio-resistance by a previous low dose. Various experimental designs were checked (initial doses between 3 and 10 cGy; second dose 2-6 Gy at 6-24 h after the first dose). Some of the experiments were carri...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Müller WU,Streffer C,Niedereichholz F

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the role that alveolar macrophages (PAM) play in the pulmonary clearance of inhaled particles via mechanical transport and dissolution, understanding the uptake and dissolution of particles by these cells might provide insight into the mechanisms of particle dissolution in lungs of various species and hence...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Taya A,Carmack DB,Muggenburg BA,Mewhinney JA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the important temporal stages of radiation action in cellular systems is the chemical phase, where oxygen fixation reactions compete with chemical repair reactions involving reducing agents such as GSH. Using the gas explosion technique it is possible to follow the kinetics of these fast (greater than 1 ms) rea...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Prise KM,Davies S,Michael BD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel 2-nitroimidazole with a theophylline side-chain, 7-(4'-(2-nitroimidazol-1-yl)-butyl)-theophylline, (NITP) was as efficient a hypoxic-cell radiosensitizer as misonidazole. However, if cells were irradiated with NITP under hypoxic conditions and then exposed to the drug under aerobic conditions, a much larger ra...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Hodgkiss RJ,Kelleher E,Parrick J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of protein kinase C in radiation-induced death of thymocytes was studied. For this purpose murine thymocytes were irradiated and incubated for 6 h at 37 degrees C and afterwards the fraction of fragmented DNA was measured. Results indicate that radiation-induced DNA fragmentation can be prevented by adding th...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Ojeda F,Guarda MI,Maldonado C,Folch H,Diehl H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation response of 15 mammalian cell lines comprising 11 human tumour, two human fibroblast and two murine lymphoma cell lines, has been analysed using the linear-quadratic equation. As well as using conventional analysis of acute dose-survival curves to derive values for alpha and beta (termed alpha ac and bet...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Peacock JH,Eady JJ,Edwards SM,McMillan TJ,Steel GG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have re-examined the effect of detergent type, pH and temperature of lysis on the shape of the DNA elution dose response under non-denaturing conditions using plateau-phase CHO cells. Results practically identical to those previously published (Okayasu and Iliakis, 1989) were obtained, with a 1 h incubation at 60 d...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Okayasu R,Iliakis G

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of local stimulation on mitotic activity and radiation tolerance was studied in mouse tongue mucosa. Silver nitrate solution (0.5-20%) was used for local conditioning. The most effective protocol comprised three daily treatments (days 0-2), yielding a delayed increase in 24 h mitotic counts by about 30% on ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Dörr W,Kummermehr J

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:The repair of DNA double-strand breaks was measured by pH 7.2 filter elution in cells incubated at 25-45 degrees C either before or after X-irradiation. Exposure to 45 degrees C for 15 minutes immediately prior to X-irradiation significantly increased both the half-time for DNA double-strand break closure and the numb...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Warters RL,Axtell J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary chick embryo myoblasts can be a useful tool for studying the developmental events which accompany myoblast differentiation, particularly myoblast membrane fusion. To determine whether the electrical properties and/or fusion in these systems are affected by 50 Hz magnetic fields, chick embryo myoblast cultures ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Grandolfo M,Santini MT,Vecchia P,Bonincontro A,Cametti C,Indovina PL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin fibroblasts from ataxia telangiectasia (AT) patients, obligate AT heterozygotes (ATH) and normal individuals were studied for colony-forming ability and repair of DNA double-strand breaks (dsb) after gamma-irradiation. AT cells were three to four times more radiosensitive than normal cells at high and low dose-ra...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Blöcher D,Sigut D,Hannan MA

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical instability of DNA under physiological conditions requires that cells have highly developed processes for repairing stochastic single-strand damage. It is proposed here that provided ionizing-radiation-induced single-strand damage does not occur at a rate sufficient to perturb the dynamic steady state bet...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Baverstock KF

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of protein phosphorylation in the second cell cycle of mouse embryos were assessed by [32P]-incorporation and one- and two-dimensional electrophoresis. Unirradiated and X-irradiated embryos were compared. X-irradiation in the G2 phase led to a block in this cell cycle phase. The phosphorylation of proteins wit...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Jung T,Streffer C

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It follows from the present work that the vascularization of the normal tissue present in the treatment volume limits the temperatures achieved during heat treatment of invasive ductal breast carcinoma. The temperatures can often be increased by giving fractionated heat treatment because heat treatment may reduce the ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Lyng H,Monge OR,Bøhler PJ,Rofstad EK

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA neutral (pH 9.6) filter elution was used to measure radiation-induced DNA double-strand break (dsb) frequencies in eight human squamous cell carcinoma cell lines with radiosensitivities (D0) ranging from 1.07 to 2.66 Gy and D values ranging from 1.46 to 4.08 Gy. The elution profiles of unirradiated samples from mo...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Schwartz JL,Mustafi R,Beckett MA,Czyzewski EA,Farhangi E,Grdina DJ,Rotmensch J,Weichselbaum RR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet heat shock (60 degrees C, 90 s) and caffeine (3.8 X 10(-4) M) afford significant radioprotection against post-irradiation O2-dependent damage which develops in seeds of approximately 3.5% moisture content. The damage was assessed in terms of seedling injury on the eighth day of growth. An increase in seedling inju...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Singh SP,Kesavan PC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BW12C, which was developed as an agent for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, increases the binding of oxygen to haemoglobin and hence reduces the availability of oxygen to tissues. Due to these changes in oxygen availability BW12C could act as a protector against radiation-induced injury to normal tissues. In this...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： van den Aardweg GJ,Hopewell JW,Adams GE,Barnes DW,Sansom JM,Stratford IJ,Nethersell AB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial enzyme PvuII, which generates blunt-ended DNA double-strand breaks, and T4 DNA ligase, which seals adjacent DNA fragments in coupling to ATP cleavage, were introduced in mouse C3H10T1/2 fibroblasts using osmolytic shock of pinocytic vesicles. Cells were then assayed for their clonogenic ability. In agree...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Durante M,Grossi GF,Napolitano M,Gialanella G

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dose-rate effect has been the topic of extensive radiobiological studies and has important implications in radiation therapy and in the field of radiation protection. Three examples will be discussed: two in radiation therapy and one in protection. First, continuous low dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy may be ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Hall EJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide reacts during irradiation to increase the yield of .OH, a radical many believe to be a major cause of lethality. Logically, one would expect N2O to be a radiation sensitizer. In some instances it is, while in others it is not. In some cases we can explain why N2O fails to sensitize; factors such as dose ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Ewing D,Walton HL,Guilfoil DS,Ohm MB

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were chronically exposed to tritiated water (3HHO) and several tritiated organic compounds [( 3H]leucine, [3H]lysine, [3H]glucose, [3H]glucosamine, [3H]thymidine and [3H]uridine) dissolved in their drinking water. An analysis of tritium in wet and dry tissues of rats at the end of 22 days' chronic exposure showed...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Takeda H

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radionuclide release assay for measuring the in vitro kinetics of cell death has been developed. CHO cells were labelled for 24 h with 3.0 hBq/ml of [125I] iododeoxyuridine (125IUdR) and the fate of the labelled cells and their progeny was monitored at daily intervals by measuring the rate of 125I release. Prelabell...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Schneiderman MH,Hofer KG,Schneiderman GS

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of recovery from radiation damage, as a function of dose per fraction, was investigated in mouse skin. Two different experimental designs were used, both incorporating the neutron top-up technique which enables the X-ray dose per fraction to be kept constant whilst changing the interfraction interval. Either ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Rojas A,Joiner MC,Johns H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SR 2508 (etanidazole) (1 mM) or buthionine sulphoximine (BSO, 50 microM) or both drugs together did not radiosensitize oxic V79 Chinese hamster cells irradiated at either an acute dose rate (2.35 Gy/min) or at a low dose rate (0.117 Gy/min). BSO pretreatment (15 h at 37 degrees C) depleted cellular glutathione (GSH) t...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Wong RS,Basas RA,Ling CC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of studies to investigate activation energies and thermal enhancements of various chemotherapeutic agents the effect of 5-fluoruracil (5FU), an antimetabolite, on murine tumour cells was studied at elevated temperatures. Animal tumours were early generation isotransplants of a spontaneous fibrosarcoma, FSa...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Urano M,Kahn J,Reynolds R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of chromosome aberrations by X-rays was investigated in synchronized quiescent and proliferating CHO-K1 cells. Kinetics of chromosome lesion repair was studied using the method of fractionated irradiation. In both cell types the time-course of repair during fractionation intervals followed first-order ki...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Volkmer B,Virsik-Peuckert RP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation chemistry of the oligomer d(TpApCpG) X-irradiated in aqueous solution containing glutathione was studied. Four products were isolated by HPLC and characterized by NMR spectroscopy. Two of the major products are isomers of a 5-hydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine modification of d(TpApCpG). A dihydrothymine modific...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Paul CR,Budzinski EE,Maccubbin A,Wallace JC,Box HC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yields of strand break formation (Gssb) in single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) initiated by radiation-generated OH radicals have been determined using the method of low-angle laser light scattering (LALLS). The irradiations were carried out in aqueous, N2O-saturated solutions in the absence and presence of oxygen and at d...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Liphard M,Bothe E,Schulte-Frohlinde D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reasonable expectations, based on the normal physiology of the human fetus, cast new light on the possibilities of extrapolation from the finding of severe mental retardation (SMR) in Japanese bomb survivors after maternal exposure to 1.8-5.5 Gy T65DR Gy. After such large exposures the fetal haematopoietic tissues (DS...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Mole RH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature suggests that the function of radiation-induced G2 arrest is to allow repair of potentially lethal damage before cell-entry into, and damage expression in, mitosis. The nature of the damage repaired is not known, but chromosome aberrations have been considered. To examine this possibility in G2 cells, t...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Rowley R

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection of simple wounds was studied directly and quantitatively in adult mice given 6.5 Gy 60Co. Three days later, when neutropenia was evident, the skin and the medial gluteus muscle of anaesthetized mice were incised. A suspension of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae or Stre...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Elliott TB,Brook I,Stiefel SM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-resistant L5178Y-R (LY-R) and radiation-sensitive L5178Y-S (LY-S) murine lymphoma cells were X-irradiated and their free Ca2+ concentration was examined with Fura-2 in Ca2(+)-free salt solution. The release of free Ca2+ from intracellular stores was linear between 10 and 60 min after irradiation (1-5 Gy X-ra...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Szumiel I,Sochanowicz B,Buraczewska I

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a summary of our understanding to date of the formation of DNA strand breaks induced by highly energetic particle beams (high-LET radiation). We have compared our own recent data on the formation of strand breaks induced in DNA in an aqueous solution with our previous data and those of others avail...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Roots R,Holley W,Chatterjee A,Irizarry M,Kraft G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of radiation damage production are used to examine the following premises: (1) the number of DNA double-strand breaks per unit dose increases with dose; (2) cell type to cell type variations in yield of DNA dsb per dose occur. Two stages of damage production are identified as possible sources of damage ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Ward JF

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced myocardial degeneration in the rat is preceded by changes in capillary structure and function, which may be a major factor in the pathogenesis of radiation-induced heart disease. In order to investigate the mechanism of capillary damage we studied endothelial cell proliferation in untreated control r...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Lauk S,Trott KR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambda-prophage induction in repair-deficient and wild-type E. coli strains by heavy ions and gamma-rays has been investigated. The dose dependence of the fraction of induced cells has been measured and its initial slope (lambda-induction potency) determined. The induction by gamma-rays was found to be more efficient ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Bonev MN,Kozubek S,Krasavin EA,Amirtajev KG

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An iodinated DNA ligand, iodo Hoechst 33258, which binds in the minor groove of DNA, enhances DNA strand breakage and cell killing by UV-A irradiation. The sites of UV-induced strand breaks reflect the known sequence specificity of the ligand. ...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Martin RF,Murray V,D'Cunha G,Pardee M,Kampouris E,Haigh A,Kelly DP,Hodgson GS

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, external X- or gamma-irradiation may induce thymic lymphomas or myeloid leukaemias, while bone-seeking alpha-emitters may induce osteosarcomas and, to a lesser extent, acute myeloid leukaemia. The present paper aims to review briefly some of the experimental data with respect to the molecular mechanisms under...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Janowski M,Cox R,Strauss PG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past recommendations of the ICRP about dose limits to the skin are reviewed. Recently, an ICRP Task Group has been revisiting the old arguments and setting them against new data. With the exception of the function of cells in the skin associated with immunocompetence, non-stochastic effects have been well characte...

journal_title：International journal of radiation biology

authors： Fry RJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00