COMPARISONS OF TRITIATED THYMIDINE, TRITIATED WATER, AND COBALT-60 GAMMA RAYS IN INDUCING CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS.
COMPARISONS OF TRITIATED THYMIDINE, TRITIATED WATER, AND COBALT-60 GAMMA RAYS IN INDUCING CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS.
复制标题
氚化胸苷、氚化水和钴 60 伽马射线诱导染色体畸变的比较。
作者:
W. Dewey;R. Humphrey;B. Jones
Reports have indicated that ,-radiation from tritium-labeled thymidine (H3TdR) incorporated into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) inhibits the survival and growth of tissue culture cells and ascites tumor cells (1-4); produces cytological effects in chick embryos (5); causes an increase in polyploid cells in the rat liver (6); damages spermatogonia (4, 7, 8); causes chromosome aberrations in plants (9-11), leukocytes (12), and regenerating rat liver cells (13); induces tumors in mice (14); and produces both lethality and mutations in mice (15) and bacteria (16-18). Except for the bacterial work, most of these studies are not quantitative in terlms of the amount of intranuclear incorporation measured either as the number of tritium disintegrations in the cell or as the dose in rads required to cause the effects observed. The object of the present study is (1) to determine the relationship between the number of visible chromosomal aberrations and the number of tritium disintegrations in the DNA, and (2) to compare the radiation dose delivered from H3TdR required to produce a certain amount of chromosomal damage with the radiation dose from chronic fAand y-radiation required to produce the same amount of damage.