Isolating effects of microscopic nonuniform distributions of (131)I on labeled and unlabeled cells.
Radiopharmaceuticals are generally distributed nonuniformly in tissue. At the microscopic level, only a fraction of the cells in tissue are labeled. Consequently, the labeled cells receive an absorbed dose from radioactivity within the cell (self-dose) as well as an absorbed dose from radioactivity in surrounding cells (cross-dose). On the other hand, unlabeled cells only receive a cross-dose. This work uses a novel approach to examine the lethal effects of microscopic nonuniformities of (131)I individually on the labeled and unlabeled cells.


METHODS
A multicellular tissue model was used to investigate the lethality of microscopic nonuniform distributions of (131)I. Mammalian cells (V79) were dyed with CFDA-SE (carboxy fluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester) and labeled with (131)I-iododeoxyuridine ((131)IdU). The dyed labeled cells were then mixed with equal numbers of unlabeled cells, and 3-dimensional tissue constructs (4 x 10(6) cells) were formed by centrifugation in a small tube. This resulted in a uniform distribution of (131)I at the macroscopic level but nonuniform distribution at the multicellular level, wherein 50% of the cells were labeled. The multicellular clusters were maintained at 10.5 degrees C for 72 h to allow (131)I decays to accumulate. The clusters were then dismantled and the labeled (dyed) and unlabeled (undyed) cells were separately seeded for colony formation using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter.


RESULTS
The unlabeled cells, which received only a cross-dose, exhibited a mean lethal dose D(37) of 4.0 +/- 0.3 Gy. In contrast, the labeled cells received both a self-dose and a cross-dose. Isolating the effects of the self-dose resulted in a D(37) of 1.2 +/- 0.3 Gy, which was about 3.3 times more toxic per unit dose than the cross-dose. The reason for these differences appears to be primarily related to the higher relative biological effectiveness of the self-dose delivered by (131)IdU compared with the cross-dose. Theoretical modeling of the killing of labeled and unlabeled cells was achieved by considering the cellular self-doses and cross-doses.


CONCLUSIONS
Cellular self-doses and cross-doses play an important role in determining the biological response of tissue to microscopic nonuniform distributions of (131)I. Prediction of the biological response requires that both self-doses and cross-doses be considered along with their relative lethality per unit dose.
Neti
Prasad V S V
PV
Department of Radiology, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA.
Howell
Roger W
RW
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D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals