Acute Effects of Iron-Particle Radiation on Immunity. Part I: Population Distributions
Acute Effects of Iron-Particle Radiation on Immunity. Part I: Population Distributions
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10.1667/rr3493.1
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2006
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M. Pecaut;R. Dutta-Roy;Anna L. M. Smith;Tamako A. Jones;G. Nelson;D. Gridley
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M. Pecaut;R. Dutta-Roy;Anna L. M. Smith;Tamako A. Jones;G. Nelson;D. Gridley
Abstract Pecaut, M. J., Dutta-Roy, R., Smith, A. L., Jones, T. A., Nelson, G. A. and Gridley, D. S. Acute Effects of Iron-Particle Radiation on Immunity. Part I: Population Distributions. Radiat. Res. 165, 68–77 (2006). Health risks due to exposure to high-linear energy transfer (LET) charged particles remain unclear. The major goal of this study was to confirm and further characterize the acute effects of high-LET radiation (56Fe26) on erythrocyte, thrombocyte and leukocyte populations in three body compartments after total-body exposure. Adult female C57BL/6 mice were irradiated with total doses of 0, 0.5, 2 and 3 Gy and killed humanely 4 days later. Body and organ masses were determined and blood, spleen and bone marrow leukocytes were evaluated using a hematology analyzer and flow cytometry. Spleen and thymus (but not body, liver and lung) masses were significantly decreased in a dose-dependent manner. In general, red blood cell (RBC) counts and most other RBC parameters were depressed with increasing dose (P T > NK and T cytotoxic > T helper cells). In the bone marrow, leukocytes with granulocytic, lymphocytic (“dim” and “bright”), and monocytic characteristics exhibited proportional variations at the higher radiation doses in the expression of CD34 and/or Ly-6A/E. The data are discussed in relation to our previous investigations with iron ions, other forms of radiation, and space flight in this same animal model.