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CHAPTER 3<br />

RESULTS<br />

exposed to 10 Gy acute dose there was marginal up-regulation of ATM, DNA-PK and Rad52<br />

genes although it was significantly lower than the fractionated group (Fig.3.1.4, A, B, C and D,<br />

Lane4). In A549 cells that had been exposed to 2 Gy acute dose there was marginal upregulation<br />

of Rad52 and MLH1 genes but these were also significantly lower than the<br />

fractionated group(Fig.3.1.4, A, B, C and D, Lane2).<br />

3.1.5 Efficient Repair of DNA<br />

It has been established recently that H2AX at the DNA double strand break (DSB) sites are<br />

immediately phosphorylated upon irradiation, and the phosphorylated H2AX (γ-H2AX) can be<br />

visualized in situ by immunostaining with a γ-H2AX specific antibody [232, 233]. γ-H2AX<br />

induction can be measured quantitatively at physiological doses, and the numbers of residual γ-<br />

H2AX foci can be used to estimate the kinetics of DSB rejoining. This has become the gold<br />

standard for the detection of DSB [233, 234].<br />

Repair kinetics was determined by counting the γ-H2AX foci at 15 min and 4h after irradiation.<br />

As expected maximum numbers of foci were seen at 15 min in A549 cells exposed to 10 Gy<br />

followed by cells exposed to fractionated irradiation and very few foci were seen in cells<br />

exposed to 2 Gy acute dose. By 4h the number of foci in cells exposed to fractionated irradiation<br />

had been reduced to almost control but in the cells exposed to 10 Gy the number of foci was still<br />

very high, indicating that there was efficient repair of DNA in A549 cells that had been exposed<br />

to fractionated irradiation (Fig. 3.1.5).<br />

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