Adaptive response to chromosome damage in cultured human lymphocytes primed with low doses of X-rays

Autor: Masao S. Sasaki, Z.-Q. Wang, S. Saigusa
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 246:179-186
ISSN: 0027-5107
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(91)90120-d
Popis: Human lymphocytes exposed to 0.02 Gy of X-rays in the G1 but not the G0 phase became less susceptible to the induction of chromosome aberrations of the chromosome type by subsequent exposure to 3 Gy of X-rays. The induction of chromatid-type aberrations was not affected by the pretreatment with the priming dose. The expression of this adaptive-type response was transitory, being maximum at 5 h, and disappeared at 9 h after the initial low-dose exposure. Cell-cycle analysis excluded the possibility of a spurious consequence of differential cell-cycle progression.
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