title: Dose response in neutral filter elution.
abstract: In neutral filter elution a nonlinear relationship between fraction of eluted DNA and dose is usually observed, which is often interpreted as a nonlinear induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) with dose. The conclusiveness of this hypothesis is questioned here on the basis of theoretical considerations regarding the size distribution of DNA fragments. A simple hydrodynamic model is proposed which generates the typical features of the dose response of neutral filter elution: (1) the shoulder at low doses, (2) a quasilinear correlation in an intermediate dose range, (3) a saturation at high doses, and (4) a linearization of the curve in the intermediate and higher dose range in a semilogarithmic plot. These features were derived even with the assumption of a linear induction of DSBs with dose. Thus it is demonstrated that the fraction of eluted DNA could conceivably be a nonlinear function of dose even if the induction of DSBs is directly proportional to the radiation dose.
authors.affiliation: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Biomedical Physics Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blöcher
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000528:radiation effects*; D004260:DNA Repair; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005374:Filtration / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D004247:DNA