On target cell numbers in radiation-induced H4-RET mediated papillary thyroid cancer.
On target cell numbers in radiation-induced H4-RET mediated papillary thyroid cancer.
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辐射诱导的 H4-RET 介导的乳头状甲状腺癌中的靶细胞数量。
DOI:
10.1007/s004110100108
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Little,MP
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作者:
Radivoyevitch,T;Sachs,RK;Nikiforov,YE;Nikiforova,MN;Little,MP
Radiation-induced human papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is associated with chromosomal inversions that involve the genetic lociH4andRETon chromosome 10. Recently, experimental data has shown that these loci lie in very close spatial proximity in a high proportion of adult human thyroid cells. Applying the generalized formulation of dual radiation action to thisH4-to-RETgeometric distance data, we predict here the radiation dose-response ofH4-RETinduction. The predictedH4-RETdose-response has a linear-to-quadratic transition dose of ∼7 Gy, suggesting the validity of linear risk extrapolations to very low doses forH4-RETmediated radiation-induced PTC. In conjunction with A-bomb survivor data, the predictedH4-RETdose- response yields estimates of the number of PTC target cells that are of the order of ∼106to ∼107cells, i.e. considerably less than the total number of follicular cells in the thyroid gland.