title: Effect of low dose rate radiation on cell growth kinetics.
abstract: Experimental determinations were made of cell number as a function of time for two strains of L5178Y mammalian cells maintained continuously in various environments of radiation. One strain possessed a shoulder in its dose response curve whereas the other did not. Neither strain showed any significant difference in growth rate for interdivision doses on the order of the median lethal dose or less delivered continuously at a low dose rate or pulsed every 4 h at a high instantaneous dose rate. It was also shown that large numbers of dead cells have little effect on growth rate and that these dead cells last as discrete entities for many days. A simple theory of growth rate in the presence of radiation is presented, and the agreement with the observations implies that there is no effect of any sublethal low dose rate radiation received in one generation on the growth rate or radiation sensitivity of the succeeding generation. Further analysis of the data also showed that for the no-shoulder cells at 37 degrees C, tritiated water had a relative biological effect close to unity for cell sterilization.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000528:radiation effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D007700:Kinetics; D007940:Leukemia L5178 / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008433:Mathematics; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological
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