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CHAPTER 4<br />

DISCUSSION<br />

attacking nearby cells within their diffusion distance of less than 0.5mm [304, 305]. However,<br />

because of their having very short half-lives, they may not be direct contributors to the cellular<br />

damage in the bystander population. This is confirmed by the fact that inclusion of cPTIO in the<br />

medium only marginally inhibits the bystander response in similar cells (Fig. 3.4.5a, Lane 5).<br />

Contrarily, it has also been reported that NO is involved in the bystander responses caused by the<br />

conditioned medium harvested from irradiated cells [306]. Therefore, some long-lived bioactive<br />

factors downstream of NO are most likely involved in this bystander response.<br />

4.5 Summary and Conclusion<br />

Summary:<br />

The irradiation of cells with fractionated doses led to a signaling response that was<br />

different from a single dose of irradiation. A549 cells were found to be relatively more<br />

radioresistant if the 10Gy dose was delivered as a fractionated regimen. Microarray<br />

analysis showed upregulation of DNA repair and cell cycle arrest genes in the cells<br />

exposed to fractionated irradiation. There was intense activation of DNA repair pathway<br />

(DNA-PK, ATM, Rad52, MLH1 and BRCA1), efficient DNA repair and phospho-p53<br />

was found to be translocated to the nucleus of A549 cells exposed to fractionated<br />

irradiation. MCF-7 cells responded differently in fractionated regimen. Silencing of the<br />

Rad52 gene in fractionated group of A549 cells made the cells radiosensitive. The<br />

reasons for the radioresistance of the A549 cells lay in the repair pathway, the Rad52, the<br />

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