Sublethal and potentially lethal damage repair on thermal neutron capture therapy

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989 · Pigment Cell Research; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0749.1989.tb00215.x· OSTI ID:5224875

Utsumi, H; Ichihashi, M; Kobayashi, T; Elkind, M M ^[1]

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1. Kyoto Univ. (Japan)

Tonicity shock or caffeine postirradiation treatment makes evident fast-type potentially lethal damage (PLD). Caffeine expresses fast-type PLD more efficiently than tonicity shock in X-irradiated B-16 mouse melanoma cells, compared with V79 Chinese hamster cells. The survival curves of thermal neutrons for either V79 or B-16 cells exhibit no shoulder. Neither V79 nor B-16 cells show the sublethal damage (SLD) repair of thermal neutrons. Caffeine-sensitive fast-type PLD repairs exist in X-irradiated B-16 cells, as well as V79 cells. The fast-type PLD repair of B-16 cells exposed to thermal neutrons alone is rather less than that of X-irradiated cells. Furthermore, an extremely low level of fast-type PLD repair of B-16 cells with 10B1-paraboronophenylalanine (BPA) preincubation (20 hours) followed by thermal neutron irradiation indicated that 10B(n,alpha)7Li reaction effectively eradicates actively growing melanoma cells. The plateau-phase B-16 cells are well able to repair the slow-type PLD of X-rays. However, cells can not repair the slow-type PLD induced by thermal neutron irradiation with or without 10B1-BPA preincubation. These results suggest that thermal neutron capture therapy can effectively kill radioresistant melanoma cells in both proliferating and quiescent phases.

• OSTI ID: 5224875
• Journal Information: Pigment Cell Research; (USA), Journal Name: Pigment Cell Research; (USA) Vol. 2:4; ISSN 0893-5785; ISSN PCREE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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