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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Biol. 2016 Oct 13;92(12):819–822. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2016.1230243

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Outline the choice of the DNA DSB repair pathway for SLDR and PLDR. Sublethal Damage Repair (SLDR) denotes the phenomenon that cell survival increases when irradiated with split doses compared to a single dose of irradiation. Potential Lethal Damage Repair (PLDR) denotes the phenomenon that survival of stationary-phase cells increases under delayed plating cells after irradiation, compared to immediate plating cells. Both SLDR and PLDR effects depend on the fast, cell cycle independent and simple NHEJ pathway but not the slow, S/G2 phase-dependent and complex HRR pathway.