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Computational model of radiation oxygen effect with Monte Carlo simulation: effects of antioxidants and peroxyl
Ankang Hu1,2, Wanyi Zhou1,2, Rui Qiu1,2
1Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Purpose:
Oxygen plays a crucial role in radiation biology. Antioxidants and peroxyl radicals affect the oxygen effect greatly. This study aims to establish a computational model of the oxygen effect and explore the effect attributed to antioxidants and peroxyl radicals.
Materials And Methods:
Oxygen-related reactions are added to our track-structure Monte Carlo code NASIC, including oxygen fixation, chemical repair by antioxidants and damage migration from base-derived peroxyl radicals. Then the code is used to simulate the DNA damage under various oxygen, antioxidant and damage migration rate conditions. The oxygen enhancement ratio(OER) is calculated quantifying by the number of double-strand breaks for each condition. The roles of antioxidants and peroxyl radicals are examined by manipulating the relevant parameters.
Results And Conclusions:
Our results indicate that antioxidants are capable of rapidly restoring DNA radicals through chemical reactions, which compete with natural and oxygen fixation processes. Additionally, antioxidants can react with peroxyl radicals derived from bases, thereby preventing the damage from migrating to DNA strands. By quantitatively accounting for the impact of peroxyl radicals and antioxidants on the OER curves, our study establishes a more precise and comprehensive model of the radiation oxygen effect.
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