1. Department of Basic and Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29403, USA;2. Department of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
Abstract:
Ultraviolet light-induced unscheduled DNA synthesis in primary cultures of human placentae examined as a function of radiation-dose and repair-incubation period was found to be dependent upon cell type and independent of gestational age. Primary cultures obtained by continuous harvesting of enzymatically released cells from fragments of 11-week and term specimens contained cytotrophoblasts and fibroblasts. Fibroblasts exhibited 3-fold more repair than did cytotrophoblasts from the same organ at both 11 weeks and term.