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Title: Dose-rate effects in synchronous mammalian cells in culture. II. A comparison of the life cycle of HeLa cells during continuous irradiation or multiple-dose fractionation. [Gamma radiation]

Journal Article · · Radiat. Res.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3574623· OSTI ID:5090187

The life cycle of synchronized S3 HeLa cells was examined during continuous irradiation at a dose rate of approximately 37 rad/hr and during multiple dose fractionation schedules of the same average dose rate (total dose / overall time = average dose rate). For all regimes given at this dose rate the effects on the life cyclee were similar. Cells progressed through G1 and S without appreciable delay and experienced a minimum G2 delay of about 10 hr. Cells eventually entered mitosis but virtually none were able to complete a successful division.

Research Organization:
Vanderbilt Univ. Hospital, Nashville
OSTI ID:
5090187
Journal Information:
Radiat. Res.; (United States), Vol. 71:3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English