発がんと突然変異の原因となる放射線誘導ラジカル (Radiation-induced Radical Which Causes Mutation and Transformation) |
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渡邉 正己 (Masami WATANABE) 長崎大学薬学部放射線生命科学講座 |
Summary
Many researcher studying in area of radiation biology have been believed that active short life-time radicals such as OH and H radicals, play an important role to express biological effects of radiations in cells, such as cell killing and mutation induction. However, we recently found a new type of radicals with long life-time in cells (T1/2>20hr) using ESR method and it may be more important in mutation induction than the active short-live radicals. When cells were treated with radical scavengers such as DMSO and vitamin C just before irradiation, short life-time radicals were scavenged well. However, if cells were treated with scavengers after irradiation, vitamin C scavenge the long life-time radicals, but DMSO did not. In addition, vitamin C treatment after irradiation drastically reduced mutation frequency at HPRT locus in human cells, but DMSO treatment did not. These results suggested that mutation is probably caused by the presence of radicals with a long lifetime in the cells, rather than short life-time radicals. Vitamin C reacts with long life-time radicals efficiently, resulting in the decrease of the mutation induction.
キーワード:突然変異、染色体異常、有機ラジカル、ビタミンC、ラジカルスキャベンジ、ESR
プロフィール
氏 名:渡邉正己(Masami WATANABE)49歳
所 属:長崎大学薬学部放射線生命科学講座
(Laboratory of Radiation and Life Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Nagasaki University)
Tel: 095-847-1111 内線2541, Fax: 095-844-5504
E-mail nabe@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
学 位:金沢大学大学院薬学研究科修了
研究分野:
1.発がんと制がんの細胞学的研究
・ヒト細胞の試験管内細胞がん化研究
・温熱治療の細胞学的基礎研究
2.放射線生物学
・放射線の生体影響研究
3.イン・ビトロ毒性学
・細胞毒性学
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