title: Low-radiation environment affects the development of protection mechanisms in V79 cells.
abstract: Very little is known about the influence of environmental radiation on living matter. In principle, important information can be acquired by analysing possible differences between parallel biological systems, one in a reference-radiation environment (RRE) and the other in a low-radiation environment (LRE). We took advantage of the unique opportunity represented by the cell culture facilities at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, where environment dose rate reduction factors in the underground (LRE), with respect to the external laboratory (RRE), are as follows: 10(3) for neutrons, 10(7) for directly ionizing cosmic rays and 10 for total γ-rays. Chinese hamster V79 cells were cultured for 10 months in both RRE and LRE. At the end of this period, all the cultures were kept in RRE for another 6 months. Changes in the activities of antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, SOD; catalase, CAT; glutathione peroxidase, GPX) and spontaneous mutation frequency at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (hprt) locus were investigated. The results obtained suggest that environmental radiation might act as a trigger of defence mechanisms in V79 cells, specifically those in reference conditions, showing a higher degree of defence against endogenous damage as compared to cells grown in a very low-radiation environment. Our findings corroborate the hypothesis that environmental radiation contributes to the development of defence mechanisms in today living organisms/systems.
authors: Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184, Rome, Italy.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Fratini
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Carbone
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Capece
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Esposito
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Simone
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Tabocchini
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Tomasi
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Belli
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Satta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D003412:Cricetulus; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004777:Environment; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000528:radiation effects; D011874:Radiometry
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants
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