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Human peripheral lymphocytes were irradiated in whole blood with 0.5–4.0 Gy of 220 kVp X-rays and the frequency of chromosome aberrations was determined in lst or 2nd division metaphases discriminated by fluorescence plus giemsa staining. Using the empirical distributions of aberrations among cells, cell survival and transmission of aberrations were investigated. Considering both daughter cells, we found that 20% of fragments and 55% of dicentrics or ring chromosomes are lost during the 1st cell division; i.e. cell survival rate from 1st to 2nd generation is mainly influenced by anaphase bridging of these two-hit aberrations. Cell survival to 2nd mitosis was calculated considering this situation and compared with the survival derived from the fraction ofM 1 cells without unstable aberrations. The resulting shouldered survival curves showed significantly different slopes, indicating that cell reproductive death is overestimated in the latter approach.
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Bauchinger, M., Schmid, E. & Braselmann, H. Cell survival and radiation induced chromosome aberrations. Radiat Environ Biophys 25, 253–260 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01214638
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01214638