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Laszlo GS, Orozco JJ, Kehret AR, Lunn MC, Huo J, Hamlin DK, Wilbur DS, Dexter SL, Comstock ML, O’Steen S, Sandmaier BM, Green DJ, Walter RB. Development of [ 211At]astatine-based anti-CD123 radioimmunotherapy for acute leukemias and other CD123+ malignancies. Leukemia 2022; 36:1485-1491. [PMID: 35474099 PMCID: PMC9177726 DOI: 10.1038/s41375-022-01580-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) has long been pursued to improve outcomes in acute leukemia and higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Of increasing interest are alpha-particle-emitting radionuclides such as astatine-211 (211At) as they deliver large amounts of radiation over just a few cell diameters, enabling efficient and selective target cell kill. Here, we developed 211At-based RIT targeting CD123, an antigen widely displayed on acute leukemia and MDS cells including underlying neoplastic stem cells. We generated and characterized new murine monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for human CD123 and selected four, all of which were internalized by CD123+ target cells, for further characterization. All mAbs could be conjugated to a boron cage, isothiocyanatophenethyl-ureido-closo-decaborate(2-) (B10), and labeled with 211At. CD123+ cell targeting studies in immunodeficient mice demonstrated specific uptake of 211At-labeled anti-CD123 mAbs in human CD123+ MOLM-13 cell tumors in the flank. In mice injected intravenously with MOLM-13 cells or a CD123NULL MOLM-13 subline, a single dose of up to 40 µCi of 211At delivered via anti-CD123 mAb decreased tumor burdens and substantially prolonged survival dose dependently in mice bearing CD123+ but not CD123- leukemia xenografts, demonstrating potent and target-specific in vivo anti-leukemia efficacy. These data support the further development of 211At-CD123 RIT toward clinical application.
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- George S. Laszlo
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA,Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA,Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA,Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Walter RB. Where do we stand with radioimmunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia? Expert Opin Biol Ther 2022; 22:555-561. [PMID: 35350938 PMCID: PMC9090441 DOI: 10.1080/14712598.2022.2060735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Despite the approval of several new drugs, deaths from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain common. Because of well-defined cell surface antigens, easy accessibility, and radiosensitivity of leukemia cells, there is long-standing interest in radiolabeled antibodies (radioimmunotherapy [RIT]) to complement or replace existing treatments and improve outcomes in AML. AREAS COVERED Targeting primarily CD33, CD45, or CD66, early RIT efforts have focused on β-emitters, including iodine-131 (131I) and yttrium-90, mostly to intensify conditioning therapy before allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). An 131I-labeled CD45 antibody (Iomab-B [apamistamab-I131]) is currently studied in the registration-type phase 3 SIERRA trial (NCT02665065) for this purpose. Of growing interest as therapeutic payloads are α-particle emitting radionuclides such as actinium-225 (225Ac) or astatine-211 (211At) since they deliver substantially higher decay energies over a much shorter distance than β-emitters, rendering them more suitable for precise, potent, and efficient target cell killing while minimizing toxicity to surrounding bystander cells, possibly allowing use outside of HCT. Clinical efforts with 211At-labeled CD45 antibodies and 225Ac-labeled CD33 antibodies (e.g. 225Ac-lintuzumab [Actimab-A]) are ongoing. EXPERT OPINION A first anti-AML RIT may soon become available. This might propel further work to develop RIT-based treatments for AML, with many such efforts already ongoing.
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- Roland B Walter
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Leblanc JE, Burtt JJ. Radiation Biology and Its Role in the Canadian Radiation Protection Framework. HEALTH PHYSICS 2019; 117:319-329. [PMID: 30907783 DOI: 10.1097/hp.0000000000001060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The linear no-threshold (linear-non-threshold) model is a dose-response model that has long served as the foundation of the international radiation protection framework, which includes the Canadian regulatory framework. Its purpose is to inform the choice of appropriate dose limits and subsequent as low as reasonably achievable requirements, social and economic factors taken into account. The linear no-threshold model assumes that the risk of developing cancer increases proportionately with increasing radiation dose. The linear no-threshold model has historically been applied by extrapolating the risk of cancer at high doses (>1,000 mSv) down to low doses in a linear manner. As the health effects of radiation exposure at low doses remain ambiguous, reducing uncertainties found in cancer risk dose-response models can be achieved through in vitro and animal-based studies. The purpose of this critical review is to analyze whether the linear no-threshold model is still applicable for use by modern nuclear regulators for radiation protection purposes, or if there is sufficient scientific evidence supporting an alternate model from which to derive regulatory dose limits.
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Relevance of Non-Targeted Effects for Radiotherapy and Diagnostic Radiology; A Historical and Conceptual Analysis of Key Players. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:cancers11091236. [PMID: 31450803 PMCID: PMC6770832 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11091236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Non-targeted effects (NTE) such as bystander effects or genomic instability have been known for many years but their significance for radiotherapy or medical diagnostic radiology are far from clear. Central to the issue are reported differences in the response of normal and tumour tissues to signals from directly irradiated cells. This review will discuss possible mechanisms and implications of these different responses and will then discuss possible new therapeutic avenues suggested by the analysis. Finally, the importance of NTE for diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine which stems from the dominance of NTE in the low-dose region of the dose–response curve will be presented. Areas such as second cancer induction and microenvironment plasticity will be discussed.
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Morsink LM, Walter RB. Novel monoclonal antibody-based therapies for acute myeloid leukemia. Best Pract Res Clin Haematol 2019; 32:116-126. [PMID: 31203993 DOI: 10.1016/j.beha.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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There has been long-standing interest in using monoclonal antibodies to improve outcomes of people with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). While several candidate therapeutics have failed at various stages of clinical testing, improved survival of some patients receiving the CD33 antibody-drug conjugate gemtuzumab ozogamicin has provided first evidence that monoclonal antibodies have a role in the armamentarium against AML. Over the last several years, work to improve the success of monoclonal antibody-based therapies in AML has focused on the identification and exploration of new antigen targets as much as on the development of novel treatment formats such as use of unconjugated engineered monoclonal antibodies and conjugated antibodies, delivering highly potent small molecule drugs or radionuclides to AML cells. Here, we will provide a brief overview of current efforts with such investigational monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics.
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- Linde M Morsink
- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Rusin A, Lapied E, Le M, Seymour C, Oughton D, Haanes H, Mothersill C. Effect of gamma radiation on the production of bystander signals from three earthworm species irradiated in vivo. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2019; 168:211-221. [PMID: 30317106 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The effect of gamma radiation delivered over 24 h on the induction of bystander signals of three earthworm species exposed in vivo was investigated: A. chlorotica, A. caliginosa, and E. tetraedra. Worms were exposed to external gamma irradiation (Co-60 source) for 24 h and samples of head, body, and clitellum were dissected from exposed and control worms and placed in culture medium for 24 h at 19 C. The harvested medium was filtered and assayed for expression of bystander signals using both clonogenic and mitochondrial reporter assays. Different responses were observed in the different species and in the different tissues. A. chlorotica worm-treated reporters show insignificant mitochondrial response for all sections, yet a significant clonogenic reduction in survival for body sections. A. caliginosa worm-treated reporters show a significant mitochondrial response for some sections and insignificant mitochondrial response and insignificant reduction in clonogenic survival for the rest. E. tetraedra worms from a control site show significant evidence of bystander signalling, measured by mitochondrial response in reporter cells, for all sections while those harvested from a contaminated site show insignificant changes in baseline signalling when exposed to the challenge dose. In vivo exposure of earthworm species shows evidence of bystander signalling using two different reporter assays. This effect varied between the different species and tissues. There is also evidence of attenuated bystander signalling in worms harvested from a site contaminated with radiation.
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- Andrej Rusin
- Dept. of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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- Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1430 Aas, Norway
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- Dept. of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Dept. of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1430 Aas, Norway
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- Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1430 Aas, Norway; Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA), Østerås, Norway
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Stewart RD, Carlson DJ, Butkus MP, Hawkins R, Friedrich T, Scholz M. A comparison of mechanism-inspired models for particle relative biological effectiveness (RBE). Med Phys 2018; 45:e925-e952. [PMID: 30421808 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE The application of heavy ion beams in cancer therapy must account for the increasing relative biological effectiveness (RBE) with increasing penetration depth when determining dose prescriptions and organ at risk (OAR) constraints in treatment planning. Because RBE depends in a complex manner on factors such as the ion type, energy, cell and tissue radiosensitivity, physical dose, biological endpoint, and position within and outside treatment fields, biophysical models reflecting these dependencies are required for the personalization and optimization of treatment plans. AIM To review and compare three mechanism-inspired models which predict the complexities of particle RBE for various ion types, energies, linear energy transfer (LET) values and tissue radiation sensitivities. METHODS The review of models and mechanisms focuses on the Local Effect Model (LEM), the Microdosimetric-Kinetic (MK) model, and the Repair-Misrepair-Fixation (RMF) model in combination with the Monte Carlo Damage Simulation (MCDS). These models relate the induction of potentially lethal double strand breaks (DSBs) to the subsequent interactions and biological processing of DSB into more lethal forms of damage. A key element to explain the increased biological effectiveness of high LET ions compared to MV x rays is the characterization of the number and local complexity (clustering) of the initial DSB produced within a cell. For high LET ions, the spatial density of DSB induction along an ion's trajectory is much greater than along the path of a low LET electron, such as the secondary electrons produced by the megavoltage (MV) x rays used in conventional radiation therapy. The main aspects of the three models are introduced and the conceptual similarities and differences are critiqued and highlighted. Model predictions are compared in terms of the RBE for DSB induction and for reproductive cell survival. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Comparisons of the RBE for DSB induction and for cell survival are presented for proton (1 H), helium (4 He), and carbon (12 C) ions for the therapeutically most relevant range of ion beam energies. The reviewed models embody mechanisms of action acting over the spatial scales underlying the biological processing of potentially lethal DSB into more lethal forms of damage. Differences among the number and types of input parameters, relevant biological targets, and the computational approaches among the LEM, MK and RMF models are summarized and critiqued. Potential experiments to test some of the seemingly contradictory aspects of the models are discussed.
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- Robert D Stewart
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356043, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Radiation Oncology Center, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA
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Pouget JP, Georgakilas AG, Ravanat JL. Targeted and Off-Target (Bystander and Abscopal) Effects of Radiation Therapy: Redox Mechanisms and Risk/Benefit Analysis. Antioxid Redox Signal 2018; 29:1447-1487. [PMID: 29350049 PMCID: PMC6199630 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2017.7267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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SIGNIFICANCE Radiation therapy (from external beams to unsealed and sealed radionuclide sources) takes advantage of the detrimental effects of the clustered production of radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS). Research has mainly focused on the interaction of radiation with water, which is the major constituent of living beings, and with nuclear DNA, which contains the genetic information. This led to the so-called target theory according to which cells have to be hit by ionizing particles to elicit an important biological response, including cell death. In cancer therapy, the Poisson law and linear quadratic mathematical models have been used to describe the probability of hits per cell as a function of the radiation dose. Recent Advances: However, in the last 20 years, many studies have shown that radiation generates "danger" signals that propagate from irradiated to nonirradiated cells, leading to bystander and other off-target effects. CRITICAL ISSUES Like for targeted effects, redox mechanisms play a key role also in off-target effects through transmission of ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), and also of cytokines, ATP, and extracellular DNA. Particularly, nuclear factor kappa B is essential for triggering self-sustained production of ROS and RNS, thus making the bystander response similar to inflammation. In some therapeutic cases, this phenomenon is associated with recruitment of immune cells that are involved in distant irradiation effects (called "away-from-target" i.e., abscopal effects). FUTURE DIRECTIONS Determining the contribution of targeted and off-target effects in the clinic is still challenging. This has important consequences not only in radiotherapy but also possibly in diagnostic procedures and in radiation protection.
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- Jean-Pierre Pouget
- 1 Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM) , INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, France
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- 2 DNA Damage Laboratory, Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens , Athens, Greece
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- 3 Univ. Grenoble Alpes , CEA, CNRS INAC SyMMES UMR 5819, Grenoble, France
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Vieira Dias J, Gloaguen C, Kereselidze D, Manens L, Tack K, Ebrahimian TG. Gamma Low-Dose-Rate Ionizing Radiation Stimulates Adaptive Functional and Molecular Response in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells in a Threshold-, Dose-, and Dose Rate-Dependent Manner. Dose Response 2018. [PMID: 29531508 PMCID: PMC5843109 DOI: 10.1177/1559325818755238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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A central question in radiation protection research is whether low-dose and low-dose-rate (LDR) exposures to ionizing radiation play a role in progression of cardiovascular disease. The response of endothelial cells to different LDR exposures may help estimate risk of cardiovascular disease by providing the biological mechanism involved. We investigated the effect of chronic LDR radiation on functional and molecular responses of human aorta endothelial cells (HAoECs). Human aorta endothelial cells were continuously irradiated at LDR (6 mGy/h) for 15 days and analyzed at time points when the cumulative dose reached 0.05, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 Gy. The same doses were administered acutely at high-dose rate (HDR; 1 Gy/min). The threshold for the loss of angiogenic capacity for both LDR and HDR radiations was between 0.5 and 1.0 Gy. At 2.0 Gy, angiogenic capacity returned to normal only for HAoEC exposed to LDR radiation, associated with increased expression of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory genes. Pre-LDR, but not pre-HDR, radiation, followed by a single acute 2.0 Gy challenge dose sustained the expression of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory genes and stimulated angiogenesis. Our results suggest that dose rate is important in cellular response and that a radioadaptive response is involved for a 2.0 Gy dose at LDR.
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- Juliana Vieira Dias
- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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PURPOSE Despite decades of research into radiation-induced adaptive responses, where prior irradiation changes the response to subsequent irradiations, the field of radiation oncology relies upon models of tumor control that assume that each radiation therapy fraction reproduces the same effect, known as iso-effect per fraction. Can these radiobiology principles both be true, forming a paradox or is only one of them right? Here, the apparent coexistence of these two contradictory observations is considered, examining how adaptive responses might apply in radiotherapy scenarios that are inconsistent with the majority of adaptive response experimental designs. CONCLUSION While the iso-effect per fraction assumption would preclude the observation of adaptive responses for cells survival after radiotherapy fractions, this does not preclude the observation of adaptive responses for other endpoints. Adaptive responses for cell survival might also manifest without invalidating the iso-effect principle in practical terms. It may also be the case that instances of both phenomena can be observed under different conditions, but not at the same time.
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- Benjamin J Blyth
- a Radiation Oncology and Cancer Imaging , Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre , Melbourne , Australia.,b Cancer Research Division , Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre , Melbourne , Australia
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Matsuya Y, Tsutsumi K, Sasaki K, Yoshii Y, Kimura T, Date H. Modeling cell survival and change in amount of DNA during protracted irradiation. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2017; 58:302-312. [PMID: 27974510 PMCID: PMC5465389 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrw110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is a well-known bioresponse under low-dose or low-dose-rate exposures. Although disorder of the DNA repair function, non-targeted effects and accumulation of cells in G2 have been experimentally observed, the mechanism for inducing HRS by long-term irradiation is still unclear. On the basis of biological experiments and a theoretical study, we have shown that change in the amount of DNA associated with accumulation of cells in G2 enhances radiosensitivity. To demonstrate continuous irradiation with 250 kVp X-rays, we adopted a fractionated regimen of 0.186 or 1.00 Gy per fraction at intervals of 1 h (i.e. 0.186 Gy/h, 1.00 Gy/h on average) to Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO)-K1 cells. The change in the amount of DNA during irradiation was quantified by flow cytometric analysis with propidium iodide (PI). Concurrently, we attempted a theoretical evaluation of the DNA damage by using a microdosimetric-kinetic (MK) model that was modified to incorporate the change in the amount of DNA. Our experimental results showed that the fraction of the cells in G2/M phase increased by 6.7% with 0.186 Gy/h and by 22.1% with 1.00 Gy/h after the 12th irradiation. The MK model considering the change in amount of DNA during the irradiation exhibited a higher radiosensitivity at a high dose range, which could account for the experimental clonogenic survival. The theoretical results suggest that HRS in the high dose range is associated with an increase in the total amount of DNA during irradiation.
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- Yusuke Matsuya
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University of Science, Maeda 7-15, Teine-ku, Sapporo 006-8585, Japan
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- Biological Research, Education and Instrumentation Center, Sapporo Medical University, Minami-1, Nichi-17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
- Corresponding author. Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan. Tel: +81-11-706-3423; Fax: +81-11-706-4916;
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Shuryak I. Quantitative modeling of responses to chronic ionizing radiation exposure using targeted and non-targeted effects. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176476. [PMID: 28441437 PMCID: PMC5404850 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The biological effects of chronic ionizing radiation exposure can be difficult to study, but important to understand in order to protect the health of occupationally-exposed persons and victims of radiological accidents or malicious events. They include targeted effects (TE) caused by ionizations within/close to nuclear DNA, and non-targeted effects (NTE) caused by damage to other cell structures and/or activation of stress-signaling pathways in distant cells. Data on radiation damage in animal populations exposed over multiple generations to wide ranges of dose rates after the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant accident are very useful for enhancing our understanding of these processes. We used a mechanistically-motivated mathematical model which includes TE and NTE to analyze a large published data set on chromosomal aberrations in pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) embryos collected over 16 years from water bodies contaminated by Chernobyl fallout, and from control locations. The fraction of embryo cells with aberrations increased dramatically (>10-fold) and non-linearly over a dose rate range of 0.03–420 μGy/h (0.00026–3.7 Gy/year). NTE were very important for describing the non-linearity of this radiation response: the TE-only model (without NTE) performed dramatically worse than the TE+NTE model. NTE were predicted to reach ½ of maximal intensity at 2.5 μGy/h (0.022 Gy/year) and to contribute >90% to the radiation response slope at dose rates <11 μGy/h (0.1 Gy/year). Internally-incorporated 90Sr was possibly more effective per unit dose than other radionuclides. The radiation response shape for chromosomal aberrations in snail embryos was consistent with data for a different endpoint: the fraction of young amoebocytes in adult snail haemolymph. Therefore, radiation may affect different snail life stages by similar mechanisms. The importance of NTE in our model-based analysis suggests that the search for modulators of NTE-related signaling pathways could be a promising strategy for mitigating the deleterious effects of chronic irradiation.
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- Igor Shuryak
- Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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The observation of bystander effects in vitro have raised some serious questions as to the appropriate target size for calculation radiation dose. This has implications on the risk from ionizing radiation since dose is often directly related to radiation risk. This paper demonstrates that bystander effects do occur in vivo. It demonstrates that at low dose rates the bystander effects and risk are limited to the organ where the radiation dose is delivered. On the other hand, exposure to high radiation dose rates produces clastogenic factors that are released into the blood. These factors have been demonstrated both in vitro and in vivo and may influence risk in organs not directly exposed to the radiation. Bystander effects suggest that organs respond as a unit and are not just a bag of individual cells acting independently. Dose and risk must consider this unit.
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- Antone L Brooks
- Department of Environmental Science and Regional Planning, Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland, WA 99352-1617, USA.
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It is now apparent that the target for the biological effects of ionizing radiation (IR) is not solely the irradiated cell(s), but also includes the surrounding cells/tissue as well. Radiation-induced bystander effects (BSEs) are defined by the presence of the biological effects of radiation in cells that were not themselves in the field of irradiation. Decreased plating efficiency, increased sister chromatid exchanges, oncogenic transformation, among other endpoints have been used to describe the BSE. Two primary means have been established for the transmission of the bystander signal; one is mediated by gap-junction intracellular communication, and the other is initiated through the secretion of factors from irradiated cells. While the basis for these phenomena have been established in cell culture systems, there is also evidence for their presence in vivo. This in vivo effect may contribute to increased tumor cell killing, and may also play a role in the abscopal effects of radiation, where radiation responses are seen in areas separated from the irradiated tissue. Although the precise molecular components and mechanisms remain unknown, their discovery will shed new light on the role of the BSEs in radiation risk assessment, and clinical radiotherapy in the clinic.
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- Andrew R Snyder
- Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201-1559, USA.
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Premkumar K, Shankar BS. Involvement of MAPK signalling in radioadaptive response in BALB/c mice exposed to low dose ionizing radiation. Int J Radiat Biol 2016; 92:249-62. [DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2016.1146829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mavragani IV, Laskaratou DA, Frey B, Candéias SM, Gaipl US, Lumniczky K, Georgakilas AG. Key mechanisms involved in ionizing radiation-induced systemic effects. A current review. Toxicol Res (Camb) 2016; 5:12-33. [PMID: 30090323 PMCID: PMC6061884 DOI: 10.1039/c5tx00222b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Organisms respond to physical, chemical and biological threats by a potent inflammatory response, aimed at preserving tissue integrity and restoring tissue homeostasis and function. Systemic effects in an organism refer to an effect or phenomenon which originates at a specific point and can spread throughout the body affecting a group of organs or tissues. Ionizing radiation (IR)-induced systemic effects arise usually from a local exposure of an organ or part of the body. This stress induces a variety of responses in the irradiated cells/tissues, initiated by the DNA damage response and DNA repair (DDR/R), apoptosis or immune response, including inflammation. Activation of this IR-response (IRR) system, especially at the organism level, consists of several subsystems and exerts a variety of targeted and non-targeted effects. Based on the above, we believe that in order to understand this complex response system better one should follow a 'holistic' approach including all possible mechanisms and at all organization levels. In this review, we describe the current status of knowledge on the topic, as well as the key molecules and main mechanisms involved in the 'spreading' of the message throughout the body or cells. Last but not least, we discuss the danger-signal mediated systemic immune effects of radiotherapy for the clinical setup.
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- Ifigeneia V Mavragani
- Physics Department , School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences , National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) , Zografou 15780 , Athens , Greece . ; ; Tel: +30-210-7724453
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- Physics Department , School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences , National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) , Zografou 15780 , Athens , Greece . ; ; Tel: +30-210-7724453
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- Department of Radiation Oncology , University Hospital Erlangen , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Erlangen , Germany
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- iRTSV-LCBM , CEA , Grenoble F-38000 , France
- IRTSV-LCBM , CNRS , Grenoble F-38000 , France
- iRTSV-LCBM , Univ. Grenoble Alpes , Grenoble F-38000 , France
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- Department of Radiation Oncology , University Hospital Erlangen , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Erlangen , Germany
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- Frédéric Joliot-Curie National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene , Budapest , Hungary
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- Physics Department , School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences , National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) , Zografou 15780 , Athens , Greece . ; ; Tel: +30-210-7724453
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Sasaki MS, Tachibana A, Takeda S. Cancer risk at low doses of ionizing radiation: artificial neural networks inference from atomic bomb survivors. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2014; 55:391-406. [PMID: 24366315 PMCID: PMC4014156 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrt133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2013] [Revised: 10/20/2013] [Accepted: 10/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Cancer risk at low doses of ionizing radiation remains poorly defined because of ambiguity in the quantitative link to doses below 0.2 Sv in atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki arising from limitations in the statistical power and information available on overall radiation dose. To deal with these difficulties, a novel nonparametric statistics based on the 'integrate-and-fire' algorithm of artificial neural networks was developed and tested in cancer databases established by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The analysis revealed unique features at low doses that could not be accounted for by nominal exposure dose, including (i) the presence of a threshold that varied with organ, gender and age at exposure, and (ii) a small but significant bumping increase in cancer risk at low doses in Nagasaki that probably reflects internal exposure to (239)Pu. The threshold was distinct from the canonical definition of zero effect in that it was manifested as negative excess relative risk, or suppression of background cancer rates. Such a unique tissue response at low doses of radiation exposure has been implicated in the context of the molecular basis of radiation-environment interplay in favor of recently emerging experimental evidence on DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice and its epigenetic memory by histone marking.
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- Masao S. Sasaki
- Kyoto University, 17-12 Shironosato, Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto 617-0835, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo 2-1-1, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-konoecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Hyland WB, McMahon SJ, Butterworth KT, Cole AJ, King RB, Redmond KM, Prise KM, Hounsell AR, McGarry CK. Investigation into the radiobiological consequences of pre-treatment verification imaging with megavoltage X-rays in radiotherapy. Br J Radiol 2014; 87:20130781. [PMID: 24472729 PMCID: PMC4067021 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20130781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2013] [Revised: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pre-treatment verification imaging with megavoltage X-rays on cancer and normal cell survival in vitro and to compare the findings with theoretically modelled data. Since the dose received from pre-treatment imaging can be significant, the incorporation of this dose at the planning stage of treatment has been suggested. METHODS The impact of imaging dose incorporation on cell survival was investigated by clonogenic assay of irradiated DU-145 prostate cancer, H460 non-small-cell lung cancer and AGO-1522b normal tissue fibroblast cells. Clinically relevant imaging-to-treatment times of 7.5 and 15 min were chosen for this study. The theoretical magnitude of the loss of radiobiological efficacy due to sublethal damage repair was investigated using the Lea-Catcheside dose protraction factor model. RESULTS For the cell lines investigated, the experimental data showed that imaging dose incorporation had no significant impact on cell survival. These findings were in close agreement with theoretical results. CONCLUSION For the conditions investigated, the results suggest that allowance for the imaging dose at the planning stage of treatment should not adversely affect treatment efficacy. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE There is a paucity of data in the literature on imaging effects in radiotherapy. This article presents a systematic study of imaging dose effects on cancer and normal cell survival, providing both theoretical and experimental evidence for clinically relevant imaging doses and imaging-to-treatment times. The data provide a firm foundation for further study into this highly relevant area of research.
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- W B Hyland
- Radiotherapy Physics, Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, UK
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Pereira S, Malard V, Ravanat JL, Davin AH, Armengaud J, Foray N, Adam-Guillermin C. Low doses of gamma-irradiation induce an early bystander effect in zebrafish cells which is sufficient to radioprotect cells. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92974. [PMID: 24667817 PMCID: PMC3965492 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The term “bystander effect” is used to describe an effect in which cells that have not been exposed to radiation are affected by irradiated cells though various intracellular signaling mechanisms. In this study we analyzed the kinetics and mechanisms of bystander effect and radioadaptation in embryonic zebrafish cells (ZF4) exposed to chronic low dose of gamma rays. ZF4 cells were irradiated for 4 hours with total doses of gamma irradiation ranging from 0.01–0.1 Gy. In two experimental conditions, the transfer of irradiated cells or culture medium from irradiated cells results in the occurrence of DNA double strand breaks in non-irradiated cells (assessed by the number of γ-H2AX foci) that are repaired at 24 hours post-irradiation whatever the dose. At low total irradiation doses the bystander effect observed does not affect DNA repair mechanisms in targeted and bystander cells. An increase in global methylation of ZF4 cells was observed in irradiated cells and bystander cells compared to control cells. We observed that pre-irradiated cells which are then irradiated for a second time with the same doses contained significantly less γ-H2AX foci than in 24 h gamma-irradiated control cells. We also showed that bystander cells that have been in contact with the pre-irradiated cells and then irradiated alone present less γ-H2AX foci compared to the control cells. This radioadaptation effect is significantly more pronounced at the highest doses. To determine the factors involved in the early events of the bystander effect, we performed an extensive comparative proteomic study of the ZF4 secretomes upon irradiation. In the experimental conditions assayed here, we showed that the early events of bystander effect are probably not due to the secretion of specific proteins neither the oxidation of these secreted proteins. These results suggest that early bystander effect may be due probably to a combination of multiple factors.
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- Sandrine Pereira
- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, PRP-Environnement/SERIS, Laboratoire d’Ecotoxicologie des Radionucléides, Cadarache, St Paul Lez Durance, France
- CRCL - UMR INSERM 1052 - CNRS 5286, Equipe de Radiobiologie, Cheney A- 1éme étage, Lyon, France
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- CEA, DSV, IBEB, Lab Biochim System Perturb, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- Laboratoire des Lésions des Acides Nucléiques, INAC/Scib UMR E3 CEA-UJF, CEA Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- CEA, DSV, IBEB, Lab Biochim System Perturb, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- CEA, DSV, IBEB, Lab Biochim System Perturb, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- CRCL - UMR INSERM 1052 - CNRS 5286, Equipe de Radiobiologie, Cheney A- 1éme étage, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, PRP-Environnement/SERIS, Laboratoire d’Ecotoxicologie des Radionucléides, Cadarache, St Paul Lez Durance, France
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Klammer H, Mladenov E, Li F, Iliakis G. Bystander effects as manifestation of intercellular communication of DNA damage and of the cellular oxidative status. Cancer Lett 2013; 356:58-71. [PMID: 24370566 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2013.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Revised: 12/13/2013] [Accepted: 12/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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It is becoming increasingly clear that cells exposed to ionizing radiation (IR) and other genotoxic agents (targeted cells) can communicate their DNA damage response (DDR) status to cells that have not been directly irradiated (bystander cells). The term radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBE) describes facets of this phenomenon, but its molecular underpinnings are incompletely characterized. Consequences of DDR in bystander cells have been extensively studied and include transformation and mutation induction; micronuclei, chromosome aberration and sister chromatid exchange formation; as well as modulations in gene expression, proliferation and differentiation patterns. A fundamental question arising from such observations is why targeted cells induce DNA damage in non-targeted, bystander cells threatening thus their genomic stability and risking the induction of cancer. Here, we review and synthesize available literature to gather support for a model according to which targeted cells modulate as part of DDR their redox status and use it as a source to generate signals for neighboring cells. Such signals can be either small molecules transported to adjacent non-targeted cells via gap-junction intercellular communication (GJIC), or secreted factors that can reach remote, non-targeted cells by diffusion or through the circulation. We review evidence that such signals can induce in the recipient cell modulations of redox status similar to those seen in the originating targeted cell - occasionally though self-amplifying feedback loops. The resulting increase of oxidative stress in bystander cells induces, often in conjunction with DNA replication, the observed DDR-like responses that are at times strong enough to cause apoptosis. We reason that RIBE reflect the function of intercellular communication mechanisms designed to spread within tissues, or the entire organism, information about DNA damage inflicted to individual, constituent cells. Such responses are thought to protect the organism by enhancing repair in a community of cells and by eliminating severely damaged cells.
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- Holger Klammer
- Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany.
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Maeda M, Kobayashi K, Matsumoto H, Usami N, Tomita M. X-ray-induced bystander responses reduce spontaneous mutations in V79 cells. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2013; 54:1043-9. [PMID: 23660275 PMCID: PMC3823787 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrt068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The potential for carcinogenic risks is increased by radiation-induced bystander responses; these responses are the biological effects in unirradiated cells that receive signals from the neighboring irradiated cells. Bystander responses have attracted attention in modern radiobiology because they are characterized by non-linear responses to low-dose radiation. We used a synchrotron X-ray microbeam irradiation system developed at the Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, and showed that nitric oxide (NO)-mediated bystander cell death increased biphasically in a dose-dependent manner. Here, we irradiated five cell nuclei using 10 × 10 µm(2) 5.35 keV X-ray beams and then measured the mutation frequency at the hypoxanthine-guanosine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) locus in bystander cells. The mutation frequency with the null radiation dose was 2.6 × 10(-)(5) (background level), and the frequency decreased to 5.3 × 10(-)(6) with a dose of approximately 1 Gy (absorbed dose in the nucleus of irradiated cells). At high doses, the mutation frequency returned to the background level. A similar biphasic dose-response effect was observed for bystander cell death. Furthermore, we found that incubation with 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide (carboxy-PTIO), a specific scavenger of NO, suppressed not only the biphasic increase in bystander cell death but also the biphasic reduction in mutation frequency of bystander cells. These results indicate that the increase in bystander cell death involves mechanisms that suppress mutagenesis. This study has thus shown that radiation-induced bystander responses could affect processes that protect the cell against naturally occurring alterations such as mutations.
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- Munetoshi Maeda
- Proton Medical Research Group, Research and Development Department, The Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center, 64-52-1 Nagatani, Tsuruga-shi, Fukui 914-0192, Japan
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Morgan WF, Bair WJ. Issues in Low Dose Radiation Biology: The Controversy Continues. A Perspective. Radiat Res 2013; 179:501-10. [DOI: 10.1667/rr3306.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ahmad SB, McNeill FE, Byun SH, Prestwich WV, Mothersill C, Seymour C, Armstrong A, Fernandez C. Ultra-Violet Light Emission from HPV-G Cells Irradiated with Low Let Radiation From (90)Y; Consequences for Radiation Induced Bystander Effects. Dose Response 2013; 11:498-516. [PMID: 24298227 DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.12-048.ahmad] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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In this study, we aimed to establish the emission of UV photons when HPV-G cells and associated materials (such as the cell substrate and cell growth media) are exposed to low LET radiation. The potential role of UV photons in the secondary triggering of biological processes led us to hypothesize that the emission and absorption of photons at this wavelength explain some radiation induced "bystander effects" that have previously been thought to be chemically mediated. Cells were plated in Petri-dishes of two different sizes, having different thicknesses of polystyrene (PS) substrate, and were exposed to β-radiation from (90)Y produced by the McMaster Nuclear Reactor. UV measurements were performed using a single photon counting system employing an interference-type filter for selection of a narrow wavelength range, 340±5 nm, of photons. Exposure of the cell substrates (which were made of polystyrene) determined that UV photons were being emitted as a consequence of β particle irradiation of the Petri-dishes. For a tightly collimated β-particle beam exposure, we observed 167 photons in the detector per unit μCi in the shielded source for a 1.76 mm thick substrate and 158 photons/μCi for a 0.878 mm thick substrate. A unit μCi source activity was equivalent to an exposure to the substrate of 18 β-particles/cm(2) in this case. The presence of cells and medium in a Petri-dish was found to significantly increase (up to a maximum of 250%) the measured number of photons in a narrow band of wavelengths of 340±5 nm (i.e. UVA) as compared to the signal from an empty control Petri-dish. When coloured growth medium was added to the cells, it reduced the measured count rate, while the addition of transparent medium in equal volume increased the count rate, compared to cells alone. We attribute this to the fact that emission, scattering and absorption of light by cells and media are all variables in the experiment. Under collimated irradiation conditions, it was observed that increasing cell density in medium of fixed volume resulted in a decrease in the observed light output. This followed a roughly exponential decline. We suggest that this may be due to increased scattering at the cell boundary and absorption of the UV in the cells. We conclude that we have measured UVA emitted by cells, cell medium and cell substrates as a consequence of their irradiation by low LET β-particle radiation. We suggest that these secondary UV photons could lead to effects in non-targetted cells. Some effects that had previously been attributed to a chemically mediated "bystander effect" may in fact be due to secondary UV emission. Some radiation bystander effect studies may require re-interpretation as this phenomenon of UV emission is further investigated.
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- Syed Bilal Ahmad
- Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University; Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Kundrát P, Friedland W. Non-linear response of cells to signals leads to revised characteristics of bystander effects inferred from their modelling. Int J Radiat Biol 2012; 88:743-50. [DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2012.698029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Faria FP, Dickman R, Moreira CHC. Models of the radiation-induced bystander effect. Int J Radiat Biol 2012; 88:592-9. [DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2012.692568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Sabin RJ, Anderson RM. Cellular Senescence - its role in cancer and the response to ionizing radiation. Genome Integr 2011; 2:7. [PMID: 21834983 PMCID: PMC3169443 DOI: 10.1186/2041-9414-2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2011] [Accepted: 08/11/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cellular senescence is a normal biological process that is initiated in response to a range of intrinsic and extrinsic factors that functions to remove irreparable damage and therefore potentially harmful cells, from the proliferative pool. Senescence can therefore be thought of in beneficial terms as a tumour suppressor. In contrast to this, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that senescence is also associated with the disruption of the tissue microenvironment and development of a pro-oncogenic environment, principally via the secretion of senescence-associated pro-inflammatory factors. The fraction of cells in a senescent state is known to increase with cellular age and from exposure to various stressors including ionising radiation therefore, the implications of the detrimental effects of the senescent phenotype are important to understand within the context of the increasing human exposure to ionising radiation. This review will discuss what is currently understood about senescence, highlighting possible associations between senescence and cancer and, how exposure to ionising radiation may modify this.
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- Rebecca J Sabin
- Centre for Cell and Chromosome Biology and Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, Division of Biosciences, Brunel University, West London, UB8 3PH, UK.
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Truta-Popa LA, Hofmann W, Fakir H, Cosma C. The effect of non-targeted cellular mechanisms on lung cancer risk for chronic, low level radon exposures. Int J Radiat Biol 2011; 87:944-53. [PMID: 21770704 DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2011.584936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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PURPOSE The goal of the present study was to investigate the effect of non-targeted mechanisms on the shape of the lung cancer risk function at chronic, low level radon exposures relative to direct cellular radiation effects. This includes detrimental and protective bystander effects, radio-adaptive bystander response, genomic instability and induction of apoptosis by surrounding cells. METHODS To quantify the dependence of these mechanisms on dose, analytical functions were derived from the experimental evidence presently available. Alpha particle intersections of bronchial target cells during a given exposure period were simulated by a Transformation Frequency-Tissue Response (TF-TR) model, formulated in terms of cellular hits within the cycle time of the cell and then integrated over the whole exposure period. RESULTS In general, non-targeted effects like genomic instability and bystander effects amplify the biological effectiveness of a given radiation dose, while induction of apoptosis and adaptive response will decrease the risk values. While these observations are related to the absolute number of lung cancer cases, normalization to the epidemiologically observed risk at 0.675 Gy suggests that the effect of such mechanisms on the shape of the dose-response relationship may be different. Indeed, genomic instability and adaptive response cause a substantial reduction of the risk at low doses, while induction of apoptosis and detrimental bystander effects slightly increase the risk. CONCLUSIONS Predictions of lung cancer risk, including these mechanisms, exhibit a distinct sublinear dose-response relationship at low exposures, particularly for very low exposure rates. However, the relatively large error bars of the epidemiological data do not currently allow the prediction of a statistically significant deviation from the Linear - No Threshold (LNT) assumption.
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- Lucia A Truta-Popa
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Farkas A, Hofmann W, Balásházy I, Szoke I, Madas BG, Moustafa M. Effect of site-specific bronchial radon progeny deposition on the spatial and temporal distributions of cellular responses. RADIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOPHYSICS 2011; 50:281-297. [PMID: 21327807 DOI: 10.1007/s00411-011-0357-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2010] [Accepted: 01/30/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Inhaled short-lived radon progenies may deposit in bronchial airways and interact with the epithelium by the emission of alpha particles. Simulation of the related radiobiological effects requires the knowledge of space and time distributions of alpha particle hits and biological endpoints. Present modelling efforts include simulation of radioaerosol deposition patterns in a central bronchial airway bifurcation, modelling of human bronchial epithelium, generation of alpha particle tracks, and computation of spatio-temporal distributions of cell nucleus hits, cell killing and cell transformation events. Simulation results indicate that the preferential radionuclide deposition at carinal ridges plays an important role in the space and time evolution of the biological events. While multiple hits are generally rare for low cumulative exposures, their probability may be quite high at the carinal ridges of the airway bifurcations. Likewise, cell killing and transformation events also occur with higher probability in this area. In the case of uniform surface activities, successive hits as well as cell killing and transformation events within a restricted area (say 0.5 mm(2)) are well separated in time. However, in the case of realistic inhomogeneous deposition, they occur more frequently within the mean cycle time of cells located at the carinal ridge even at low cumulative doses. The site-specificity of radionuclide deposition impacts not only on direct, but also on non-targeted radiobiological effects due to intercellular communication. Incorporation of present results into mechanistic models of carcinogenesis may provide useful information concerning the dose-effect relationship in the low-dose range.
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- Arpád Farkas
- Health and Environmental Physics Department, Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Konkoly Thege M. út 29-33, 1121, Budapest, Hungary.
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Yang H, Magpayo N, Held KD. Targeted and non-targeted effects from combinations of low doses of energetic protons and iron ions in human fibroblasts. Int J Radiat Biol 2010; 87:311-9. [PMID: 21158498 DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2010.537431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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PURPOSE In space, astronauts are exposed to mixed radiation fields consisting of energetic protons and high atomic number, high energy (HZE) particles at low dose rates. Therefore, it is critical to understand effects of combinations of low doses of different radiation types at the cellular level. MATERIALS AND METHODS AG01522 normal human skin fibroblasts and a transwell insert co-culture system were used. Irradiations used were 1 GeV/amu (gigaelectron volt/atomic mass unit) protons and 1 GeV/amu iron (Fe) ions. DNA damage was measured as micronucleus (MN) formation and p53 binding protein 1 (53BP1) foci induction. RESULTS The same magnitude of DNA damage was induced in cells sequentially exposed to 1 cGy protons and 1 cGy Fe ions as in cells irradiated with either protons or Fe ions alone. The same magnitude of DNA damage was also observed in non-irradiated bystander cells sharing medium with cells irradiated with either 1 cGy protons or iron ions or protons plus iron ions. However, when the 'bystander' cells were exposed to 1 cGy protons up to 3 h before co-culture with Fe ion-irradiated cells, no DNA damage in the 'bystander' cells was observed. CONCLUSIONS These data provide the first evidence of interactions between targeted and non-targeted DNA damage caused by dual exposure to low doses of energetic protons and iron ions.
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- Hongying Yang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Sjostedt S, Bezak E. Non-targeted effects of ionising radiation and radiotherapy. AUSTRALASIAN PHYSICAL & ENGINEERING SCIENCES IN MEDICINE 2010; 33:219-31. [PMID: 20857259 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-010-0030-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2010] [Accepted: 08/13/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Modern radiobiology is undergoing rapid change due to new discoveries contradicting the target concept which is currently used to predict dose-response relationships. Thus relatively recently discovered radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBEs), that include additional death, mutation and radio-adaptation in non-irradiated cells, change our understanding of the target concept and broadens its boundaries. This can be significant from a radioprotection point of view and also has the potential to reassess radiation damage models currently used in radiotherapy. This article reviews briefly the general concepts of RIBEs such as the proposed underlying mechanisms of signal induction and propagation, experimental approaches and biological end points used to investigate these phenomena. It also summarises several mathematical models currently proposed in an attempt to quantify RIBE. The main emphasis of this article is to review and highlight the potential impact of the bystander phenomena in radiotherapy.
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- Svetlana Sjostedt
- Department of Medical Physics, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.
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Maeda M, Tomita M, Usami N, Kobayashi K. Bystander cell death is modified by sites of energy deposition within cells irradiated with a synchrotron X-ray microbeam. Radiat Res 2010; 174:37-45. [PMID: 20681797 DOI: 10.1667/rr2086.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Radiation-induced bystander effects are the biological responses exhibited by cells adjacent to cells that have been traversed by charged particles. Using a synchrotron X-ray microbeam irradiation system, we irradiated five cells in two different ways: by targeting the nuclei with 10 microm x 10-microm 5.35 keV X-ray beams and by irradiating the whole cells with 50 microm x 50-microm 5.35 keV X-ray beams. Then we measured the clonogenic survival of the bystander cells. When only the nuclei were irradiated, a parabolic enhancement of bystander cell death was observed in a dose-dependent manner in the low-dose region around 1 Gy. In contrast, the surviving fraction of bystander cells decreased monotonically when whole cells were irradiated. Addition of carboxy-PTIO, a specific scavenger of nitric oxide (NO), suppressed bystander cell death in both cases. These results indicate that NO is a mediator in the induction of the parabolic and monotonic types of bystander cell death. Moreover, from the spatial analysis, we found that the parabolic type of bystander cell death was induced primarily within 1 mm of irradiated cells. Our findings demonstrate that the induction of bystander cell death depends on the sites of energy deposition in irradiated cells.
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- Munetoshi Maeda
- Radiation Safety Research Center, Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, CRIEPI, Komae-shi, Tokyo 201-8511, Japan.
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Leonard BE, Thompson RE, Beecher GC. Human lung cancer risks from radon - part I - influence from bystander effects - a microdose analysis. Dose Response 2010; 9:243-92. [PMID: 21731539 DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.09-057.leonard] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Since the publication of the BEIR VI report in 1999 on health risks from radon, a significant amount of new data has been published showing various mechanisms that may affect the ultimate assessment of radon as a carcinogen, at low domestic and workplace radon levels, in particular the Bystander Effect (BE) and the Adaptive Response radio-protection (AR). We analyzed the microbeam and broadbeam alpha particle data of Miller et al. (1995, 1999), Zhou et al. (2001, 2003, 2004), Nagasawa and Little (1999, 2002), Hei et al. (1999), Sawant et al. (2001a) and found that the shape of the cellular response to alphas is relatively independent of cell species and LET of the alphas. The same alpha particle traversal dose response behavior should be true for human lung tissue exposure to radon progeny alpha particles. In the Bystander Damage Region of the alpha particle response, there is a variation of RBE from about 10 to 35. There is a transition region between the Bystander Damage Region and Direct Damage Region of between one and two microdose alpha particle traversals indicating that perhaps two alpha particle "hits" are necessary to produce the direct damage. Extrapolation of underground miners lung cancer risks to human risks at domestic and workplace levels may not be valid.
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Leonard BE, Thompson RE, Beecher GC. Human Lung Cancer Risks from Radon - Part II - Influence from Combined Adaptive Response and Bystander Effects - A Microdose Analysis. Dose Response 2010; 9:502-53. [PMID: 22461760 DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.09-058.leonard] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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In the prior Part I, the potential influence of the low level alpha radiation induced bystander effect (BE) on human lung cancer risks was examined. Recent analysis of adaptive response (AR) research results with a Microdose Model has shown that single low LET radiation induced charged particles traversals through the cell nucleus activates AR. We have here conducted an analysis based on what is presently known about adaptive response and the bystander effect (BE) and what new research is needed that can assist in the further evaluation human cancer risks from radon. We find that, at the UNSCEAR (2000) worldwide average human exposures from natural background and man-made radiations, the human lung receives about a 25% adaptive response protection against the radon alpha bystander damage. At the UNSCEAR (2000) minimum range of background exposure levels, the lung receives minimal AR protection but at higher background levels, in the high UNSCEAR (2000) range, the lung receives essentially 100% protection from both the radon alpha damage and also the endogenic, spontaneously occurring, potentially carcinogenic, lung cellular damage.
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Adaptive responses to low doses of low LET radiation occur in all organisms thus far examined, from single cell lower eukaryotes to mammals. These responses reduce the deleterious consequences of DNA damaging events, including radiation-induced or spontaneous cancer and non-cancer diseases in mice. The adaptive response in mammalian cells and mammals operates within a certain window that can be defined by upper and lower dose thresholds, typically between about 1 and 100 mGy for a single low dose rate exposure. However, these thresholds for protection are not a fixed function of total dose, but also vary with dose rate, additional radiation or non-radiation stressors, tissue type and p53 functional status. Exposures above the upper threshold are generally detrimental, while exposures below the lower threshold may or may not increase either cancer or non-cancer disease risk.
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- Ronald E J Mitchel
- Radiation Protection Research and Instrumentation Branch, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, ON Canada
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Averbeck D. Does scientific evidence support a change from the LNT model for low-dose radiation risk extrapolation? HEALTH PHYSICS 2009; 97:493-504. [PMID: 19820459 DOI: 10.1097/hp.0b013e3181b08a20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The linear no-threshold (LNT) model has been widely used to establish international rules and standards in radiation protection. It is based on the notion that the physical energy deposition of ionizing radiation (IR) increases carcinogenic risk linearly with increasing dose (i.e., the carcinogenic effectiveness remains constant irrespective of dose) and, within a factor of two, also with dose-rate. However, recent findings have strongly put into question the LNT concept and its scientific validity, especially for very low doses and dose-rates. Low-dose effects are more difficult to ascertain than high-dose effects. Epidemiological studies usually lack sufficient statistical power to determine health risks from very low-dose exposures. In this situation, studies of the fundamental mechanisms involved help to understand and assess short- and long-term effects of low-dose IR and to evaluate low-dose radiation risks. Several lines of evidence demonstrate that low-dose and low dose-rate effects are generally lower than expected from high-dose exposures. DNA damage signaling, cell cycle checkpoint activation, DNA repair, gene and protein expression, apoptosis, and cell transformation differ qualitatively and quantitatively at high- and low-dose IR exposures, and most animal and epidemiological data support this conclusion. Thus, LNT appears to be scientifically invalid in the low-dose range.
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- Dietrich Averbeck
- Dietrich Averbeck, Institut Curie-Section de Recherche, UMR2027 CNRS/I.C., Centre Universitaire, F-91405 ORSAY Cedex, France.
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Yatagai F, Sugasawa K, Enomoto S, Honma M. An approach to estimate radioadaptation from DSB repair efficiency. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2009; 50:407-413. [PMID: 19680010 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.09050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In this review, we would like to introduce a unique approach for the estimation of radioadaptation. Recently, we proposed a new methodology for evaluating the repair efficiency of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) using a model system. The model system can trace the fate of a single DSB, which is introduced within intron 4 of the TK gene on chromosome 17 in human lymphoblastoid TK6 cells by the expression of restriction enzyme I-SceI. This methodology was first applied to examine whether repair of the DSB (at the I-SceI site) can be influenced by low-dose, low-dose rate gamma-ray irradiation. We found that such low-dose IR exposure could enhance the activity of DSB repair through homologous recombination (HR). HR activity was also enhanced due to the pre-IR irradiation under the established conditions for radioadaptation (50 mGy X-ray-6 h-I-SceI treatment). Therefore, radioadaptation might account for the reduced frequency of homozygous loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events observed in our previous experiment (50 mGy X-ray-6 h-2 Gy X-ray). We suggest that the present evaluation of DSB repair using this I-SceI system, may contribute to our overall understanding of radioadaptation.
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- Fumio Yatagai
- Metallomics Imaging Research Unit, Center for Molecular Imaging Science, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan.
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Zhang Y, Zhou J, Baldwin J, Held KD, Prise KM, Redmond RW, Liber HL. Ionizing radiation-induced bystander mutagenesis and adaptation: quantitative and temporal aspects. Mutat Res 2009; 671:20-5. [PMID: 19695271 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2009] [Revised: 08/05/2009] [Accepted: 08/10/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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This work explores several quantitative aspects of radiation-induced bystander mutagenesis in WTK1 human lymphoblast cells. Gamma-irradiation of cells was used to generate conditioned medium containing bystander signals, and that medium was transferred onto naïve recipient cells. Kinetic studies revealed that it required up to 1h to generate sufficient signal to induce the maximal level of mutations at the thymidine kinase locus in the bystander cells receiving the conditioned medium. Furthermore, it required at least 1h of exposure to the signal in the bystander cells to induce mutations. Bystander signal was fairly stable in the medium, requiring 12-24h to diminish. Medium that contained bystander signal was rendered ineffective by a 4-fold dilution; in contrast a greater than 20-fold decrease in the cell number irradiated to generate a bystander signal was needed to eliminate bystander-induced mutagenesis. This suggested some sort of feedback inhibition by bystander signal that prevented the signaling cells from releasing more signal. Finally, an ionizing radiation-induced adaptive response was shown to be effective in reducing bystander mutagenesis; in addition, low levels of exposure to bystander signal in the transferred medium induced adaptation that was effective in reducing mutations induced by subsequent gamma-ray exposures.
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- Ying Zhang
- Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Grillo CA, Dulout FN, Güerci AM. Evaluation of radioadaptive response induced in CHO-K1 cells in a non-traditional model. Int J Radiat Biol 2009; 85:159-66. [DOI: 10.1080/09553000902740143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Held KD. Effects of low fluences of radiations found in space on cellular systems. Int J Radiat Biol 2009; 85:379-90. [DOI: 10.1080/09553000902838558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Postiglione I, Chiaviello A, Palumbo G. Twilight effects of low doses of ionizing radiation on cellular systems: a bird's eye view on current concepts and research. Med Oncol 2009; 27:495-509. [PMID: 19504191 DOI: 10.1007/s12032-009-9241-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2009] [Accepted: 05/22/2009] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The debate about the health risks from low doses of radiation is vigorous and often acrimonious since many years and does not appear to weaken. Being far from completeness, this review presents only a bird's eye view on current concepts and research in the field. It is organized and divided in two parts. The first is dedicated to molecular responses determined by radiation-induced DNA ruptures. It focuses its attention on molecular pathways that are activated by ATM and tries to describe the variegated functions and specific roles of Chk2 and p53 and other proteins in sensing, promoting and executing DNA repair. The second part is more concerned with the risk associated with exposure to low dose radiation and possible effects that the radiation-affected cell may undergo. These effects include induction of apoptosis and mitotic catastrophe, bystander effect and genomic instability, senescence and hormetic response. Current hypotheses and research on these issues are briefly discussed.
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- Ilaria Postiglione
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, L Califano and IEOS/CNR, University FEDERICO II, Via Sergio Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
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Elmore E, Lao XY, Kapadia R, Redpath JL. Threshold-Type Dose Response for Induction of Neoplastic Transformation by 1 GeV/nucleon Iron Ions. Radiat Res 2009; 171:764-70. [DOI: 10.1667/rr1673.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Richard M, Webb R, Kirkby K, Kirkby N. A computer model of the Bystander effect: Effects of individual behaviours on the population response. Appl Radiat Isot 2009; 67:440-2. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.06.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kim EH. BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION BY MICROSCOPIC APPROACHES. NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 2008. [DOI: 10.5516/net.2008.40.7.551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Leonard BE. A composite microdose Adaptive Response (AR) and Bystander Effect (BE) model-application to low LET and high LET AR and BE data. Int J Radiat Biol 2008; 84:681-701. [PMID: 18661382 DOI: 10.1080/09553000802241820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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PURPOSE It has been suggested that Adaptive Response (AR) may reduce risk of adverse health effects due to ionizing radiation. But very low dose Bystander Effects (BE) may impose dominant deleterious human risks. These conflicting behaviors have stimulated controversy regarding the Linear No-Threshold human risk model. A dose and dose rate-dependent microdose model, to examine AR behavior, was developed in prior work. In the prior work a number of in vitro and in vivo dose response data were examined with the model. Recent new data show AR behavior with some evidence of very low dose BE. The purpose of this work is to supplement the microdose model to encompass the Brenner and colleagues BaD (Bystander and Direct Damage) model and apply this composite model to obtain new knowledge regarding AR and BE and illustrate the use of the model to plan radio-biology experiments. MATERIALS AND METHODS The biophysical composite AR and BE Microdose Model quantifies the accumulation of hits (Poisson distributed, microdose specific energy depositions) to cell nucleus volumes. This new composite AR and BE model provides predictions of dose response at very low dose BE levels, higher dose AR levels and even higher dose Direct (linear-quadratic) Damage radiation levels. RESULTS We find good fits of the model to both BE data from the Columbia University microbeam facility and combined AR and BE data for low Linear Energy Transfer (LET) and high LET data. A Bystander Factor of about 27,000 and an AR protection factor of 0.61 are obtained for the low LET in vivo mouse spleen exposures. A Bystander Factor of 317 and an AR protection factor of 0.53 are obtained for high LET radon alpha particles in human lymphocytes. In both cases the AR is activated at most by one or two radiation induced charged particle traversals through the cell nucleus. CONCLUSIONS The results of the model analysis is consistent with a premise that both Bystander damage and Adaptive Response radioprotection can occur in the same cell type, derived from the same cell species. The model provides an analytical tool to biophysically study the combined effects of BE and AR.
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- Bobby E Leonard
- International Academy, 693 Wellerburn Road, Severna Park, Maryland 21146, USA.
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Leonard BE. A review: Development of a microdose model for analysis of adaptive response and bystander dose response behavior. Dose Response 2008; 6:113-83. [PMID: 18648579 DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.07-027.leonard] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Prior work has provided incremental phases to a microdosimetry modeling program to describe the dose response behavior of the radio-protective adaptive response effect. We have here consolidated these prior works (Leonard 2000, 2005, 2007a, 2007b, 2007c) to provide a composite, comprehensive Microdose Model that is also herein modified to include the bystander effect. The nomenclature for the model is also standardized for the benefit of the experimental cellular radio-biologist. It extends the prior work to explicitly encompass separately the analysis of experimental data that is 1.) only dose dependent and reflecting only adaptive response radio-protection, 2.) both dose and dose-rate dependent data and reflecting only adaptive response radio-protection for spontaneous and challenge dose damage, 3.) only dose dependent data and reflecting both bystander deleterious damage and adaptive response radio-protection (AR-BE model). The Appendix cites the various applications of the model. Here we have used the Microdose Model to analyze the, much more human risk significant, Elmore et al (2006) data for the dose and dose rate influence on the adaptive response radio-protective behavior of HeLa x Skin cells for naturally occurring, spontaneous chromosome damage from a Brachytherapy type (125)I photon radiation source. We have also applied the AR-BE Microdose Model to the Chromosome inversion data of Hooker et al (2004) reflecting both low LET bystander and adaptive response effects. The micro-beam facility data of Miller et al (1999), Nagasawa and Little (1999) and Zhou et al (2003) is also examined. For the Zhou et al (2003) data, we use the AR-BE model to estimate the threshold for adaptive response reduction of the bystander effect. The mammogram and diagnostic X-ray induction of AR and protective BE are observed. We show that bystander damage is reduced in the similar manner as spontaneous and challenge dose damage as shown by the Azzam et al (1996) data. We cite primary unresolved questions regarding adaptive response behavior and bystander behavior. The five features of major significance provided by the Microdose Model so far are 1. Single Specific Energy Hits initiate Adaptive Response. 2. Mammogram and diagnostic X-rays induce a protective Bystander Effect as well as Adaptive Response radio-protection. 3. For mammogram X-rays the Adaptive Response protection is retained at high primer dose levels. 4. The dose range of the AR protection depends on the value of the Specific Energy per Hit, 1 >. 5. Alpha particle induced deleterious Bystander damage is modulated by low LET radiation.
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- Bobby E Leonard
- International Academy, 693 Wellerburn Road, Severna Park, MD 21146, USA.
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Dimova EG, Bryant PE, Chankova SG. Adaptive response: some underlying mechanisms and open questions. Genet Mol Biol 2008. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572008000300002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Melhus KB, Larsen RH, Stokke T, Kaalhus O, Selbo PK, Dahle J. Evaluation of the binding of radiolabeled rituximab to CD20-positive lymphoma cells: an in vitro feasibility study concerning low-dose-rate radioimmunotherapy with the alpha-emitter 227Th. Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2007; 22:469-79. [PMID: 17803441 DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2007.371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) with the alpha-emitter 227Th is currently under evaluation. 227Th is conjugated to the chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab, using the chelator p-isothiocyanato-benzyl-DOTA. In this study, the binding of 227Th-DOTA-p-benzyl-rituximab to three different CD-20-positive lymphoma cell lines, Raji, Rael, and Daudi, were evaluated. Equilibrium and kinetic binding experiments were used to determine binding parameters, including the association and dissociation rate constants, the equilibrium dissociation constants, and the total number of antigens for Raji, Rael, and Daudi cells. There were significant differences between the cell lines with respect to both Kd and the total number of antigens. Rael cells had more than three times as many antigens as the other two cell lines, and the functional Kd found for Rael cells was significantly higher than that found for Raji and Daudi cells. These results were confirmed using flow cytometry. Rituximab was found to be localized in patches on the cell membrane. The findings indicated that 227Th-labeled rituximab has relevant antigen-targeting properties for radioimmunotherapy.
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- Katrine B Melhus
- Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway
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Yatagai F, Umebayashi Y, Honma M, Sugasawa K, Takayama Y, Hanaoka F. Mutagenic radioadaptation in a human lymphoblastoid cell line. Mutat Res 2007; 638:48-55. [PMID: 17919664 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2007.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2007] [Revised: 08/15/2007] [Accepted: 08/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We investigated the mutagenic radioadaptive response of human lymphoblastoid TK6 cells by pretreating them with a low dose (5 cGy) of X-rays followed by a high (2 Gy) dose 6h later. Pretreatment reduced the 2-Gy-induced mutation frequency (MF) of the thymidine kinase (TK) gene (18.3 x 10(-6)) to 62% of the original level (11.4 x 10(-6)). A loss of heterozygosity (LOH) detection analysis applied to the isolated TK(-) mutants revealed the mutational events as non-LOH (resulting mostly from a point mutation in the TK gene), hemizygous LOH (resulting from a chromosomal deletion), or homozygous LOH (resulting from homologous recombination (HR) between chromosomes). For non-LOH events, pretreatment decreased the frequency to 27% of the original level (from 7.1 x 10(-6) to 1.9 x 10(-6)). cDNAs prepared from the non-LOH mutants revealed that the decrease was due mainly to the repression of base substitutions. The frequency of hemizygous LOH events, however, was not significantly altered by pretreatment. Mapping analysis of chromosome 17 demonstrated that the distribution and the extent of hemizygous LOH events were also not significantly influenced by pretreatment. For homozygous LOH events, pretreatment reduced the frequency to 61% of the original level (from 5.1 x 10(-6) to 3.1 x 10(-6)), reflecting an enhancement in HR repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Our findings suggest that the radioadaptive response in TK6 cells follows mainly from mutations at the base-sequence level, not the chromosome level.
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- Fumio Yatagai
- Advanced Development and Support Center, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
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Although systemic radionuclide therapy (SRT) is effective as a palliative therapy in patients with metastatic cancer, there has been limited success in expanding patterns of utilization and in bringing novel systemic radiotherapeutic agents to routine clinical use. Although there are many factors that contribute to this situation, we hypothesize that a better understanding of the radiobiology and mechanism of action of SRT will facilitate the development of future compounds and the future designs of prospective clinical trials. If these trials can be rationalized to the biological basis of the therapy, it is likely that the long-term outcome would be enhanced therapeutic efficacy. In this review, we provide perspectives of the current state of low-dose-rate (LDR) radiation research and offer linkages where appropriate with current clinical knowledge. These include the recently described phenomena of low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity-increased radioresistance (LDH-IRR), adaptive responses, and biological bystander effects. Each of these areas require a major reconsideration of existing models for radiation action and an understanding of how this knowledge will integrate into the evolution of clinical SRT practice. Validation of a role in vivo for both LDH-IRR and biological bystander effects in SRT would greatly impact the way we would assess therapeutic response to SRT, the design of clinical trials of novel SRT radiopharmaceuticals, and risk estimates for both therapeutic and diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals. We believe that the current state of research in LDR effects offers a major opportunity to the nuclear medicine community to address the basic science of clinical SRT practice, to use this new knowledge to expand the use and roles of SRT, and to facilitate the introduction of new therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.
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- David Murray
- Department of Oncology, Division of Experimental Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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