The radiation-induced bystander effect for clonogenic survival |
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Authors: | Sawant S G Zheng W Hopkins K M Randers-Pehrson G Lieberman H B Hall E J |
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Institution: | Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA. |
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Abstract: | It has long been accepted that the radiation-induced heritable effects in mammalian cells are the result of direct DNA damage. Recent evidence, however, suggests that when a cell population is exposed to a low dose of alpha particles, biological effects occur in a larger proportion of cells than are estimated to have been traversed by alpha particles. Experiments involving the Columbia University microbeam, which allows a known fraction of cells to be traversed by a defined number of alpha particles, have demonstrated a bystander effect for clonogenic survival and oncogenic transformation in C3H 10T(1/2) cells. When 1 to 16 alpha particles were passed through the nuclei of 10% of a C3H 10T(1/2) cell population, more cells were unable to form colonies than were actually traversed by alpha particles. Both hit and non-hit cells contributed to the outcome of the experiments. The present work was undertaken to assess the bystander effect of radiation in only non-hit cells. For this purpose, Chinese hamster V79 cells transfected with hygromycin- or neomycin-resistance genes were used. V79 cells stably transfected with a hygromycin resistance gene and stained with a nuclear dye were irradiated with the charged-particle microbeam in the presence of neomycin-resistant cells. The biological effect was studied in the neomycin-resistant V79 cells after selective removal of the hit cells with geneticin treatment. |
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