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Accelerated repopulation of mouse tongue epithelium during fractionated irradiations or following single doses.

Radiother. Oncol. 17, 249-259 (1990)
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Mouse tongue mucosa was established as an animal model to study repopulation after large single doses or during continuous irradiation. A top-up irradiation technique was used employing priming doses or fractionated treatment to the whole snout (300 kV X-rays) followed by local test doses (25 kV X-rays) to elicit denudation in a confined field of the inferior tongue surface. Clearcut quantal dose-response curves of ulcer incidence were obtained to all protocols; animal morbidity, i.e. body weight loss was minimal. Repopulation following priming doses of 10 and 13 Gy started with a delay of at least 3 days and then progressed rapidly to nearly restore original tissue tolerance by day 11. During continuous fractionation over 1 to 3 weeks with 5 fractions/week and doses per fraction of 2.5, 3 and 3.5 Gy, repopulation was small in week one but subsequently increased to fully compensate the weekly dose at all dose levels. Additional measurements of cell density during a 4 weeks course of 5 x 3 Gy or 5 x 4 Gy per week showed only moderate depletion to 67% of the control figures. The fact that rapid repopulation is achieved at relatively moderate damage levels should be taken into account when the timing of a treatment split is considered.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Accelerated Repopulation ; Fractionation ; Mouse Tongue Mucosa ; Radiation Response
Language english
Publication Year 1990
HGF-reported in Year 0
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0167-8140
e-ISSN 1879-0887
Quellenangaben Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 249-259 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Elsevier
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Scopus ID 0025342946
Erfassungsdatum 1990-12-31