Inactivation of C3H 10T1/2 cells by monoenergetic high LET alpha-particles.

Inactivation of mouse C3H 10T1/2 cells in plateau-phase (7.8 x 10(4) cells/cm2) was studied by using alpha-particles from the irradiation facility installed for radiobiological experiments at the 3 MV Tandem accelerator, University of Naples. Silicon detectors and CR39 plastic track detectors were employed for dosimetric purposes. The cells were exposed to high LET monoenergetic alpha-particles (energy of 1.8 MeV at the centre of the cell nucleus, track-averaged LET of 177 keV/micron and dose-rate of 1.1 Gy/min) and low-LET 80 kVp X-rays. The X-ray survival curve showed a significant shoulder (alpha/beta = 9 Gy) while the survival curve for alpha-particles was close to exponential. The mean lethal dose of alpha-particles was 0.77 +/- 0.02 Gy and the RBE was 5.2 at 80% survival and 3.0 at 5% survival. Survival of exponentially growing cells (2 x 10(4) cells/cm2) following irradiation with the alpha-particle beam is also reported. The nuclear areas of 10T1/2 cells were measured as 299 +/- 9 micron 2 and 250 +/- 8 micron 2 for cells in log phase and plateau phase, respectively. The inactivation cross-section, obtained from the mean lethal dose, was 34 micron 2 and 37 micron 2 for cells in log phase and plateau phase, respectively. These values appear to be the maximum measured values for the inactivation cross-section of 10T1/2 cells as a function of the alpha-particle LET. This saturation cross-section is very similar to the saturation values reported in the literature for other mammalian cell lines.

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