title: The effect of combined treatment with a platinum complex and ionizing radiation on chinese hamster ovary cells in vitro.
abstract: Cis-dichlorobis(cyclopentylamine)platinum II (DBCP) belongs to the group of platinum complexes which have recently been reported to have anti-tumour activity. Its cytotoxic activity in CHO cells is not cell-age-dependent, but enhancement of the effect of ionizing radiation is both dose-and cell cycle phase-dependent. In asynchronous cell populations DBCP acts as a dose-modifying factor for ionizing radiation. Doses of DBCP reducing survival of CHO cells to 26% and 4% applied 1 h before irradiation reduce the Do value of radiation dose-survival curves by factors of 1-34 and 1-59 respectively. In synchronized CHO populations enhancement by DBCP of the effect of radiation is most pronounced in G1 and in late S while it is reduced in mid-S. Possible mechanisms of DBCP-radiation interaction are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D006224:Cricetinae; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005260:Female; D008938:Mitosis; D010053:Ovary / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D010984:Platinum / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011830:Radiation Effects; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010984:Platinum