BREAKAGE OF HUMAN INTERPHASE CHROMOSOMES BY ALPHA-PARTICLES AND X-RAYS
BREAKAGE OF HUMAN INTERPHASE CHROMOSOMES BY ALPHA-PARTICLES AND X-RAYS
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DOI:
10.1080/09553008914550261
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发表时间:
1989-02-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
GOODHEAD, DT
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作者:
BEDFORD, JS;GOODHEAD, DT
The technique of premature chormosome condensation (PCC) was used to compare the early formation of chromosome breaks in non-cycling HF19 human diploid fibroblasts when irradiated with slow alpha particles (3.2 MeV, 128 keV .mu.m-1) or 250 kVp X-rays. For both radiations the production of PCC breaks increased approximately linearly with dose. The production coefficient for alpha particles was 12.5 .+-. 0.6 per cent per Gy and for X-rays it was 5.8 .+-. 0.2 per cell per Gy. Hence, the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of the alpha particles was 2.16 .+-. 0.13. This is smaller than reported values of the RBE for the production of chromosome-type exchange aberrations by slow alpha particles. This implies that there, is a difference, spatial or qualitative, in the initial breaks produced by the densely ionizing alpha particle tracks and the more sparsely ionizing electron tracks from the X-rays.