Negative Pion Irradiation of Mammalian Cells
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Radiation Biology
- Vol. 29 (3) , 271-277
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09553007614550301
Abstract
Monolayers and spheroids of Chinese hamster cells (V79) were subjected to negative pion irradiation under aerobic conditions. R.b.e. values in the pion peak of 1·8 and 1·5 were obtained for monolayers and spheroids, respectively, whereas the r.b.e. for the plateau was found to be slightly higher than 1. In addition, it was observed that the higher resistance of the V79 spheroid cells than the monolayers to gamma-irradiation is not diminished in the pion peak, suggesting that the underlying phenomenon of intercellular communication influences cell survival even after high-LET irradiation.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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