The Absence of an Effect of Photoreactivation on Sub-lethal Damage Accumulation in a Photoreactive Wallaby Cell-line

Abstract
Monolayer cultures of JU56 wallaby cells were exposed to germicidal U.V. and/or photoreactivating (PR) light. The U.V. exposures induced dose-dependent cell-death. The survival data are consistent with a common extrapolation number (n) of 6·17 ± 0·98 with a D0 of 123·0 ± 6·8 erg/mm2 for photo-reactivated cells and a D0 of 87·0 ± 4·9 erg/mm2 for non-photoreactivated cells; the photoreactivation protected the cells with a dose-modification factor of 1·41 ± 0·02. Therefore PR is not a shoulder phenomenon and so has no relationship to the repair of sub-lethal damage.

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