title: Gene Expression Biodosimetry: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Dose with Total Body Exposure of Rats.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Accurate dose assessment and correct identification of irradiated from non-irradiated people are goals of biological dosimetry in radiation accidents.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Changes in the FDXR and the RAD51 gene expression (GE) levels were here analyzed in response to total body exposure (TBE) to a 6 MV x-ray beam in rats. We determined the accuracy for absolute quantification of GE to predict the dose at 24 hours.
  
  
  METHODS
  For this in vivo experimental study, using simple randomized sampling, peripheral blood samples were collected from a total of 20 Wistar rats at 24 hours following exposure of total body to 6 MV X-ray beam energy with doses (0.2, 0.5, 2 and 4 Gy) for TBE in Linac Varian 2100C/D (Varian, USA) in Golestan Hospital, in Ahvaz, Iran. Also, 9 rats was irradiated with a 6MV X-ray beam at doses of 1, 2, 3 Gy in 6MV energy as a validation group. A sham group was also included. After RNA extraction and DNA synthesis, GE changes were measured by the QRT-PCR technique and an absolute quantification strategy by taqman methodology in peripheral blood from rats. ROC analysis was used to distinguish irradiated from non-irradiated samples (qualitative dose assessment) at a dose of 2 Gy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The best fits for mean of responses were polynomial equations with a R2 of 0.98 and 0.90 (for FDXR and RAD51 dose response curves, respectively). Dose response of the FDXR gene produced a better mean dose estimation of irradiated "validation" samples compared to the RAD51 gene at doses of 1, 2 and 3 Gy. FDXR gene expression separated the irradiated rats from controls with a sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of 87.5%, 83.5% and 81.3%, respectively, 24 hours after dose of 2 Gy. These values were significantly (p<0.05) higher than the 75%, 75% and 75%, respectively, obtained using gene expression of RAD51 analysis at a dose of 2 Gy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Collectively, these data suggest that absolute quantification by gel purified quantitative RT-PCR can be used to measure the mRNA copies for GE biodosimetry studies at comparable accuracy to similar methods. In the case of TBE with 6MV energy, FDXR gene expression analysis is more precise than that with RAD51 for quantitative and qualitative dose assessment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran E-mail : eh_medph@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Alihossein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saberi
authors.forename: Ehsan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Khodamoradi
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tahmasebi Birgani
authors.forename: Manoochehr
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makvandi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005260:Female; D005287:Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase / Q000235:genetics*; D012372:ROC Curve; D051135:Rad51 Recombinase / Q000235:genetics*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D059467:Transcriptome / Q000528:radiation effects*; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation
chemical_list: D005287:Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase; D051135:Rad51 Recombinase; C495155:Rad51 protein, rat