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Modeling radiation-induced cell cycle delays

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Ionizing radiation is known to delay the cell cycle progression. In particular after particle exposure significant delays have been observed and it has been shown that the extent of delay affects the expression of damage, such as chromosome aberrations. Thus, to predict how cells respond to ionizing radiation and to derive reliable estimates of radiation risks, information about radiation-induced cell cycle perturbations is required. In the present study we describe and apply a method for retrieval of information about the time-course of all cell cycle phases from experimental data on the mitotic index only. We study the progression of mammalian cells through the cell cycle after exposure. The analysis reveals a prolonged block of damaged cells in the G2 phase. Furthermore, by performing an error analysis on simulated data valuable information for the design of experimental studies has been obtained. The analysis showed that the number of cells analyzed in an experimental sample should be at least 100 to obtain a relative error <20%.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part (A. O-M) by the grant of Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN, Grant No 1 P03B 159 29). Moreover, E. G-N acknowledges Marie Curie TOK COCOS grant at the Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Center in Kraków, Poland. E.N. was supported by BMBF (Bonn, Germany) under contract number 02S8203 and 02S8497.

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  1. Department of Soft Condensed Matter, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw, Poland

    Anna Ochab-Marcinek

  2. Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, ul. Reymonta 4, Krakow, Poland

    Anna Ochab-Marcinek & Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

  3. Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Centre, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, Krakow, Poland

    Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

  4. Biophysics Department, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Elena Nasonova & Sylvia Ritter

  5. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), 141980, Dubna, Moscow, Russia

    Elena Nasonova

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Ochab-Marcinek, A., Gudowska-Nowak, E., Nasonova, E. et al. Modeling radiation-induced cell cycle delays. Radiat Environ Biophys 48, 361–370 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00411-009-0239-7

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