title: Radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the mouse: experimental observations in vivo with implications for hypotheses about the basis of carcinogenesis.
abstract: Acute myeloid leukaemia induction by X- and gamma-rays in 4 mouse strains follows the same dose-response aD2e-lambda D. The (dose)2 interaction disappears within 3 days. AML appears earlier when syngeneic marrow cells are injected 3 days after irradiation, minimum latent period and final frequency remaining unchanged. Dose-responses for brief and protracted exposures are quite different for non-myeloid 'leukemia'. The results seem incompatible with a common model for initiation of both leukaemia categories and with orthodox concepts that initiation is a stable state and must be followed by multiple events over a period of time before cells express fully malignant behaviour.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Mole
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000528:radiation effects; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005720:Gamma Rays; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D007953:Leukemia, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D013997:Time Factors; D014965:X-Rays