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. 1965 Jan;5(1):1–25. doi: 10.1016/s0006-3495(65)86700-5

X-Ray and Ultraviolet Sensitivity of Synchronized Chinese Hamster Cells at Various Stages of the Cell Cycle

W K Sinclair, R A Morton
PMCID: PMC1367705  PMID: 14284327

Abstract

Populations of Chinese hamster cells, synchronized by selecting for cells at or close to division, were exposed to 250 kvp x-rays and to ultraviolet light at different stages of the cell cycle and colony-forming ability examined thereafter. These cells were found to be most resistant to x-rays during the latter part of the DNA synthetic period (S) and to be about equally sensitive before (G1) and after (G2) this period. Multitarget type curves of the same slope (Do ∼ 200 rad) only approximately fitted the survival data at different stages in the cycle. The changes in response were primarily due to variations in the shoulders (or extrapolation numbers) of the curves however. The response to ultraviolet light differed from that to x-rays. Resistance was greatest in G2 and changes in both shoulder and slope of the survival curves occurred throughout the cell cycle. The x-ray and ultraviolet responses for component stages of the cell cycle were respectively compounded into expected survival data for a log phase asynchronous population of hamster cells and found to agree well with direct experiment.

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