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ArticleRadiation and environmental biophysics2014

Automated analysis of the cytokinesis-block micronucleus assay for radiation biodosimetry using imaging flow cytometry.

M A Rodrigues, L A Beaton-Green, B C Kutzner, R C Wilkins

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Article in Radiation and environmental biophysics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Development of high-throughput systems for biodosimetry.Radiation protection dosimetry · 2023
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  6. The Imaging Flow Cytometry-Based Cytokinesis-Block MicroNucleus (CBMN) Assay.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  7. Imaging Flow Cytometry of Multi-Nuclearity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  8. Imaging flow cytometry: a primer.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2022
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  12. Automation of the in vitro micronucleus assay using the ImagestreamCytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology · 2018
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  17. EPRBioDose 2013: EPR applications and biological dosimetry.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M A RodriguesConsumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada, 775 Brookfield Rd., Ottawa, ON, K1A 1C1, Canada.
L A Beaton-Green
B C Kutzner
R C Wilkins
Health Canada · CACarleton University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay is employed in biological dosimetry to determine the dose of radiation to an exposed individual from the frequency of micronuclei (MN) in binucleated lymphocyte cells. The method has been partially automated for the use in mass casualty events, but it would be advantageous to further automate the method for increased throughput. Recently, automated image analysis has been successfully applied to the traditional, slide-scoring-based method of the CBMN assay. However, with the development of new technologies such as the imaging flow cytometer, it is now possible to adapt this microscope-based assay to an automated imaging flow cytometry method. The ImageStream(X) is an imaging flow cytometer that has adequate sensitivity to quantify radiation doses larger than 1 Gy while adding the increased throughput of traditional flow cytometry. The protocol and analysis presented in this work adapts the CBMN assay for the use on the ImageStream(X). Ex vivo-irradiated whole blood samples cultured for CBMN were analyzed on the ImageStream(X), and preliminary results indicate that binucleated cells and MN can be identified, imaged and enumerated automatically by imaging flow cytometry. Details of the method development, gating strategy and the dose response curve generated are presented and indicate that adaptation of the CBMN assay for the use with imaging flow cytometry has potential for high-throughput analysis following a mass casualty radiological event.

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AutomationCytokinesisDose-Response Relationship, RadiationFlow CytometryHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLeukocytes, MononuclearMicronucleus TestsMolecular ImagingRadiometry

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