Mechanistic modelling of radiation-induced bystander effects
1Institute of Radiation Protection, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany pavel.kundrat@helmholtz-muenchen.de.
Abstract:
A model of radiation-induced bystander effects is presented that explicitly takes into account the transient nature of bystander signal emission post-irradiation, signal lifetime and the non-linear cellular response to the signals. Data are analysed on mutagenesis induced in human lymphoblasts in medium transfer experiments, in which the signal build-up time, medium dilution and the duration of reporter cells' exposure to the medium were varied. The model implies that the cellular release of bystander signals decreases rather slowly, with a characteristic time of about a day, whereas the signal itself decays with a lifetime of about an hour.
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