title: In vitro studies of the sensitivity of canine bone-marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) and fibroblast colony-forming units (CFU-F) to X-irradiation.
abstract: The radiosensitivity of the early erythroid progenitor cells (BFU-E) and the progenitor cells of the stroma (CFU-F) in canine bone marrow was studied under steady-state conditions by in vitro irradiation with 280 kV X-rays. The dose-effect relationship for colony formation was determined for BFU-E obtained from the iliac crest marrow, and for CFU-F in bone marrow collected from the iliac crest and the humerus of adult beagles. The BFU-E were adequately stimulated with serum from lethally irradiated dogs to obtain a source of BPA (burst-promoting activity). The BFU-E proved to be extremely radiosensitive, and the survival curve was exponential (D0 = 15.3 +/- 1.8 cGy). We showed that buffy-coat leukocytes separated from bone marrow leukocytes obtained by aspiration were an optimum source of CFU-F. A curve was fitted to the data obtained for CFU-F obtained from the iliac crest or the humerus, resulting in D0 = 241 +/- 38 cGy and an extrapolation number n = 1.38 +/- 0.62 or D0 = 261 +/- 40 cGy and n = 1.04 +/- 0.42, respectively. According to these findings, and other published data, we conclude that the canine bone marrow BFU-E are presently the most radiosensitive hemopoietic cells detected among all hemopoietic cells of different mammals.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kreja
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baltschukat
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nothdurft
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000528:radiation effects*; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000528:radiation effects*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D011836:Radiation Tolerance