Mutation Induction by Very Low Dose Rate γ Rays in Cultured Mouse Leukemia Cells L5178Y
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Radiation Research
- Vol. 115 (2) , 273-280
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3577163
Abstract
Induction of cell killing and mutation of 6-thioguanine resistance was studied in growing mouse leukemia cells in culture following .gamma. rays at dose rates of 30 Gy/h, 20 cGy/h, and 6.3 mGy/h, i.e., acute, low dose rate, and very low dose rate irradiation. A marked increase was observed in the cell survival with decreasing dose rate; no reduction in the surviving fraction was detected after irradiation at 6.3 mGy/h until a total dose of 4 Gy. Similarly, the induced mutation frequency decreased after low dose rate irradiation compared to acute irradiation. However, the frequency after irradiation at 6.3 mGy/h was unexpectedly high and remained at a level which was intermediate between acute and low dose rat irradiation. No appreciable changes were observed in the responses to acute .gamma. rays (in terms of cell killing and mutation induction) in the cells which had experienced very low dose rate irradiation.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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