EFFECTS OF PRE-IRRADIATION ON ISOGENEIC AND SEMI-ISOGENEIC CFU GROWTH: A STUDY ON GENETIC RESISTANCE |
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Authors: | W A Buurman Ivonne van Bruggen |
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Institution: | Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The genetic resistance to a parental bone marrow transplant as demonstrated, when transplantation was performed early after irradiation, failed to occur if the interval between irradiation and transplantation was increased to 4 days. A similar radiation induced weakening of genetic resistance to a parental bone marrow graft in spleen and bone marrow could be demonstrated in mice, which had been irradiated with a sublethal dose at 7 days prior to the lethal irradiation and transplantation. The pre-irradiation of the recipient with a sublethal dose induced an enhancement of the growth in spleen and bone marrow of isogeneic transplanted CFU. The pre-irradiation of a single tibia also resulted in a significant weakening of the resistance in the spleen. The experiments with partial body pre-irradiation suggested a local effect of the pre-irradiation, but it could be shown that the enhanced CFU growth is not caused by an enhanced seeding of CFU in pre-irradiated bone marrow. The role of microenvironment in the phenomenon of genetic resistance is discussed. |
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