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Original Article

Direct Comparison of Biological Effectiveness of Protons and Alpha-particles of the Same LET. II. Mutation Induction at the HPRT Locus in V79 Cells

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Pages 625-629 | Received 08 Feb 1991, Accepted 10 Dec 1991, Published online: 03 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Mutation induction at the hprt locus has been studied in V79-4 Chinese hamster cells irradiated with monoenergetic protons and α-particles with LET of 20·3 and 23 keV µ−1. The mutation frequency increased linearly with the dose for all the four radiation qualities investigated, so that effectiveness for mutation induction could be expressed by the slope of the relevant curve. This effectiveness did not significantly change with the small change in LET of each kind of particle, while sizeable differences were found between particles. Protons were more effective in mutation induction than α-particles with the same LET by a factor of about 2. This finding is similar to, although slightly larger than, the factors 1·5–1·8 found for inactivation of the same cells in the same series of experiments.

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