M O Degteva, N B Shagina, M I Vorobiova, E A Shishkina, E I Tolstykh, A V Akleyev
{"title":"Contemporary Understanding of Radioactive Contamination of the Techa River in 1949-1956.","authors":"M O Degteva, N B Shagina, M I Vorobiova, E A Shishkina, E I Tolstykh, A V Akleyev","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of recently available archive materials regarding the liquid radioactive waste storage and reprocessing at the \"Mayak\" Production Association in 1949-1956 has led to a more accurate reconstruction of radionuclide releases into the Techa River. Radionuclide concentrations in the Techa River water, bottom sediments and floodplain soils in 1949-1951 were reconstructed with the use of a purposely-developed Techa River model. Model calculations agree with the measurements of the specific activity in the river water and bottom sediments conducted since 1951. The model output for the (90)Sr concentration in the river water shows a good agreement with the retrospective estimates derived from (90)Sr measurements in teeth and the whole body of the Techa riverside residents. Modeled (137)Cs-contamination of the floodplain shows agreement with the values reconstructed from (137)Cs measurements in the floodplain soils obtained in later years. Reconstructed contamination levels by radionuclides in the Techa River water and floodplain are being used to refine internal and external doses and risk estimates of late effects in the population chronically exposed to radiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"523-534"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36904512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in the Relative Number of SP Cells of Melanoma Line B16 after Radiation Exposure in vivo.","authors":"O N Matchuk, N V Orlova, I A Zamulaeva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The quantitative regularities of changes of cancer stem cell (CSC) population were explored after local γ-irradiation of experimental tumors (murine melanoma line B16). CSCs were detected by the ability of these cells to exclude Hoechst 33342 fluorescent dye and to form a so-called side population (SP) under flow cytometry study. In the control group of unexposed mice a positive correlation was found between the proportion of CSCs (SP) and tumorweight at the initial stage of growth (R = 0.77, p = 0.009). In the advanced stages of tumor growth similar relationship was not revealed. Statistically significant increase in the proportion of CSCs (SP) occurred 2-5 days after exposure of tumor to a dose of 10 Gy as compared to control; this index returned to the control level 8 days after irradiation. On the second day after exposure to radiation a linear correlation between the percentage of CSCs and a radiation dose in the range of 2-10 Gy was established (R = 0.98, p = 0.003), confirming a higher radioresistance of this population as compared to other cells not only in vitro (as it was previously shown by us and other authors), but also in vivo. These results suggest the possibility of application of this model system to assess the CSC sensitivity to various antitumor agents in vivo, including preclinical trials, and clarify the details of the practical application of this method.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"487-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36905556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional Features of Microcirculation System and its Possibilities of Oxygen Transport in Children and Youths of Bryansk Region in Conditions of Radioecological Pressure.","authors":"F B Litvin, G V Vasilieva, V V Baranov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The questions of influence of low radiation doses on microcirculation of blood in ontogeny of males from 7 to 27 years are presented in the article. Using the method of laser Doppler ultrasounds, optical oximetry and laser fluorescent diagnostics, we studied the blood perfusion level in the microcirculation system of 315 schoolchildren and students, considered the regulation mechanisms of microcirculation, the level of oxygen saturation of hemoglobin both in the circulation system and mixed blood, the index of oxygen utilization in tissues and the value of fluorescent use of oxygen. We received the information about the changes in the frequency of occurrence of different microcirculation types associated with the age and region of residence. In the case of higher radiation levels we marked a significant increase of individuals with the \"extreme\" microcirculation type (hypoemic and hyperemic) against the background of the decreased mesoemic type. A special feature of the metabolism process in children, teenagers, and youths is a decrease of the microcirculation density with an increase of the myogenic tone of metaarterioles and precapillary sphincters. The tone of arterioles grows with age. As a result of the limited blood volume, oxygen. is pulled compensatory from blood in larger amounts; it is shown from a significant decrease of the level of oxygen saturation in mixed blood. The strongest differences are shown for the hypoemic and hyperemic microcirculation type. Dwelling on the areas with radio-ecological pressure is accompanied by an increase in the fluorescent index of oxygen use. The level of the total oxygen use in these individuals is higher than in those living in radiation favorable areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"514-522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36905559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dose-Response of Micronuclei in Binucleated and Mononucleated Lymphocytes from Cytochalasin Culture (Irradiation in vivo and in vitro).","authors":"I E Vorobtsova, A V Semenov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dose-responses of micronuclei (MN) in binucleated (BN) and mononucleated (MONO) lymphocytes cultivated with cytochalasin B (CBMN-assay) were studied. Irradiation of lymphocytes was performed in vitro (donor A) at the single dose of 1 and 2 Gy of (60)Co y-rays, or in vivo, during whole-body exposure of a cancer patient (donor B) to (60)Co γ-rays each day at a single dose of 0.115 Gy up to a total dose of 1.15 Gy. The linear dose-response for MN was determined in both BN and MONO lymphocytes of donor B. It means that when CBMN assay is applied, the MN in MONO cells represent those preexisted in vivo before each exposure. On the contrary, in lymphocytes of donor A irradiated in vitro an essential elevated MN yield with an - increased dose was observed only in BN lymphocytes. A slight dose dependent elevation of MN in MONO cells seems to be due to either their division before cytochalasin was introduced in the culture medium or their insensitivity to the CB block of cytokinesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"503-506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36905557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V A Kudryavtsev, A V Khokhlova V, A Mosina, Yu M Makarova, A E Kabakov
{"title":"Induction of Heat Shock Protein 70 as a Predictive Marker of the Tumor Cell Radiosensitization with Inhibitors of the Heat Shock Protein 90 Activity.","authors":"V A Kudryavtsev, A V Khokhlova V, A Mosina, Yu M Makarova, A E Kabakov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inhibitors of the heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) activity are considered as potential radiosensitizers of tumors with a perspective of their application in radiotherapy. However, there are tumors and tumor cell lines whose radioresistance is not decreased after treatment with the HSP90 activity inhibitors; therefore, a predictive marker is needed, which would allow one to predict the response of target cells. As such a marker, herein it is proposed to use induction of the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) that is an early cellular response to the HSP90 dysfunction and can easily be immunodetected. It follows from the data obtained that the radiosensitization of HSP90 inhibitor-treated cells occurs only when this treatment causes the prominent induction of HSP70 in them. Determination of this marker enables one: 1) to predict a possibility of radiosensitization of any cells by means of the HSP90 activity inhibitors, 2) to design the inhibitor concentration range upon which the radiosensitizing effect seems likely to occur, 3) to find whether this radiosensitization will be selective towards cancer cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"494-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36904513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RBE of α-Particles for Delayed Production of Colonies by Irradiated Yeast Cells.","authors":"E S Evstratova, O V Pereklad, A V Khryachkova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of delayed colony appearance by irradiated cells exemplifying genetic instability is confirmed to be more expressed for diploid wild-type yeast cells characterized by a sigmoidal shape of the survival curve and capable of recovery from radiation damage in contrast to isogenic haploid strain incapable of diploid-specific recovery and characterized by the exponential form of the survival curve. The dependence of the delayed appearance of colonies by diploid yeast cells on the dose of ionizing radiation shows more pronounced manifestation after the action of α-particles (RBE = 4.2 ± 0.3) than after irradiation with y-rays. This effect may be associated with the greater efficiency of densely ionizing radiation to produce lethal radiation damage and accompanying sublesions responsible for the delay in the formation of colonies by the cells surviving after irradiation. It is shown that the dependence of the delayed colony appearance by diploid yeast cells on their survival was substantially the same after exposure to sparsely and densely ionizing radiation. Since exposure to ionizing radiation of different quality induced equally effective number of lethal damage and the same survival rates, these data indicate that the identical number of the accompanying sublesions responsible for the delayed colony appearance are produced by irradiated cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 5","pages":"481-486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36905555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N M Belous, A G Podolyak, A F Karpenko, E V Smolskiy
{"title":"Effectiveness of Protective Activities for Rehabilitation of the Forage Lands in Russia and Belarus Contaminated as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident.","authors":"N M Belous, A G Podolyak, A F Karpenko, E V Smolskiy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regularities of changes in the content of (137)Cs in green fodder during the remote period after the CNPP accident depending on application of agro-technical and agrochemical activities are analyzed. It is revealed that the use of mineral fertilizers reduces receipt of (137)Cs from the soil to forage and further to a food chain. It is also established that agrochemical activities are more effective than agro-technical ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 4","pages":"405-413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36916226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Level of Radiation-Induced Heat Shock Protein with a Molecular Weight of 27 and 70 kDa is the Hallmark of Radioresistant SP Cells of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Culture.","authors":"O N Matchuk, I A Zamulaeva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As previously indicated, side population cells (side population, SP) of breast cancer line MCF-7 have greater resistance to the action of low-LET radiation compared to other tumor cells (non SP, NSP). One can assume that one possible reason for the high radioresistance of this fraction of tumor cells is the increased expression of different heat shock proteins (HSP) before and/or after radiation exposure. To verify this hypothesis, we investigated the expression of HSP27 and HSP70 in these populations of cells-before and after irradiation at a dose of 5.0 Gy. The study was performed using scanning microscopy for NSP and SP cells after sorting and immunocytochemical staining. A substantial increase of HSP27 and HSP70 in SP cells was found after irra- diation as'compared with the control. In NSP cells the HSP27 level increased in response to radiation exposure, but to a lesser extent than in SP cells, while the content of HSP70 did not change after irradiation. The results confirm the assumption about HSP27 and HSP70 participation in the formation of SP cell radioresistance by the example of MCF-7 line.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 4","pages":"382-388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36916775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial and Temporal Reconstruction of Chernobyl (137)Cs Initial Fallout Field on Soil Within upper Lokna River Basin.","authors":"E N Shamshurina, V N Golosov, M M Ivanov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study area is located within the upper Lokna River basin with a catchment area of about 35 km(2). The schematic map of (137)Cs initial fallout after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 on soil was drawn. The method of selecting reference sites and soil sampling scheme are given in detail-for statistically correct description of radionuclide initial fallout field. 12 soil samples were selected from each of the six reference sites to characterize the average amount of radionuclide in the upper 30 cm of the soil profile. Additionally, some single sampling points were used on erosion-stable areas adjacent or located within the catchment, as well as the \"truncated\" samples of the radionuclide inventory from the catchment bottom. The cesium soil contamination in 1986 immediately after the Chernobyl accident was restored taking into account the half-life of (137)Cs. The schematic map adequately correlated with the aerial photography data performed by Hydromet in 1986.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 4","pages":"414-425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36916227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plutonium Content in Soil Fractions of Various Sizes and Estimation of the Risks of the Chernobil Nuclear Power Plant Zone.","authors":"M Ja Chebotina, L M Shcerbakova, R P Ponomareva","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on the data from the literature the authors analyzed the methods used for the estimation of the risks of plutonium-contaminated areas. The analysis was based on the published data on the measured plutonium concentrations in the air and soil. To calculate plutonium concentrations in the near-surface air layer above the contaminated area a modification of the method of the load estimation from the mass was proposed: instead of the average plutonium specific activity in soil the authors suggested the use of the soil coefficient which consists of the sum of specific activities of every respirable fraction (size 0.05 to 10 μm) multiplied by the percentage of its activity in the total activity of the soil sample. Verification of the proposed method on independent data showed that the calculated values approached the measured ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":79368,"journal":{"name":"Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia","volume":"56 4","pages":"426-432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36916228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}