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Transient cell function disruption by low dose acute exposure of ionizing radiation

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Title Transient cell function disruption by low dose acute exposure of ionizing radiation
 
Creator Saxena, Priyanka
Bhatnagar, Aseem
Nishad, Dhruv Kumar
Tyagi, Ritu
Rana, Poonam
Ali, Shakir
Mittal, Gaurav
 
Subject Thallium-201
Iodine-131
Thyroid stunning
Na+-K+ ATPase pump
 
Description 895-903
Incubation of BMG-1 cells with thallium chloride (<sup>201</sup>Tl) in the range of diagnostic dose did not show a smooth uptake curve and appeared to have an unsuspected deviation in initial phase. In the present study this unexpected phenomenon was explored, using commonly used radionuclides (viz., <sup>201</sup>Tl and <sup>131</sup>I). Comparison was made with technetium-99m pertechnetate (<sup>99m</sup>TcO<sub>4</sub><sup>-</sup>) and technetium-99m labeled methoxyisobutylisonitrile (<sup>99m</sup>Tc-MIBI) that are known to show conventional 2 phase graph representing inflow and outflow segments. Serial <i style="">in vitro</i>, <i style="">ex-vivo</i> and <i style="">in vivo</i> gamma scintigraphy as well as NMR spectroscopy experiments were conducted to corroborate the results. BMG-1 cells demonstrated a four-phase uptake pattern with <sup>201</sup>Tl as compared to a conventional biphasic pattern with <sup>99m</sup>Tc-MIBI. Flow cytometry data however did not reveal any <sup>201</sup>Tl induced cell injury. Further, mice tissue extracts injected with <sup>201</sup>Tl also showed a transient depression in its uptake. Scintigraphy experiments in rabbits administered with diagnostic dose of <sup>201</sup>Tl and <sup>131</sup>I confirmed the <i style="">in vitro</i> and <i style="">ex vivo</i> findings. Further, proton NMR spectroscopy showed decrease in the level of choline at 3 h and 24 h in <sup>201</sup>Tl treated animals as compared to control. Phosphoethanolamine peak firstly decreased at 3 h but reached normal level at 24 h time point. No significant change was observed in the level of betaine. This transient reduction in internalization of <sup>201</sup>Tl and <sup>131</sup>I may represent a hitherto unknown acute effect of low dose radiation, i.e., transient depression in Na<sup>+</sup>-K<sup>+</sup> ATPase pump activity without any apparent evidence of cell damage, representing a transient cell membrane dysfunction. The phenomenon may present a mechanistical explanation of ‘thyroid stunning’ at cellular level and suggest that it may be more universal in nature than suspected till now.
 
Date 2011-11-30T09:32:08Z
2011-11-30T09:32:08Z
2011-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13092
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJEB Vol.49(12) [December 2011]