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ArticleJournal of radiation research2015

Radiation-induced bystander effect in non-irradiated glioblastoma spheroid cells.

Fahime Faqihi, Ali Neshastehriz, Shokouhozaman Soleymanifard, Robabeh Shabani, Nazila Eivazzadeh

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Article in Journal of radiation research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Fahime FaqihiRadiation Sciences Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali NeshastehrizRadiation Sciences Department, Faculty of Medical Physics, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran neshastehriz@yahoo.com.
Shokouhozaman SoleymanifardMedical Physics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Robabeh ShabaniCellular and Molecular Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nazila EivazzadehRadiation Research Center, a.ja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran University of Medical Sciences · IRMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBEs) are detected in cells that are not irradiated but receive signals from treated cells. The present study explored these bystander effects in a U87MG multicellular tumour spheroid model. A medium transfer technique was employed to induce the bystander effect, and colony formation assay was used to evaluate the effect. Relative changes in expression of BAX, BCL2, JNK and ERK genes were analysed using RT-PCR to investigate the RIBE mechanism. A significant decrease in plating efficiency was observed for both bystander and irradiated cells. The survival fraction was calculated for bystander cells to be 69.48% and for irradiated cells to be 34.68%. There was no change in pro-apoptotic BAX relative expression, but anti-apoptotic BCL2 showed downregulation in both irradiated and bystander cells. Pro-apoptotic JNK in bystander samples and ERK in irradiated samples were upregulated. The clonogenic survival data suggests that there was a classic RIBE in U87MG spheroids exposed to 4 Gy of X-rays, using a medium transfer technique. Changes in the expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic genes indicate involvement of both intrinsic apoptotic and MAPK pathways in inducing these effects.

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ApoptosisBystander Effectbcl-2-Associated X ProteinCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalGlioblastomaHumansMAP Kinase Kinase 4MAP Kinase Signaling SystemProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2RadiotherapySpheroids, CellularX-RaysBAX protein, humanbcl-2-Associated X ProteinBCL2 protein, humanMAP Kinase Kinase 4Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2apoptosisradiation-induced bystander effectU87MG spheroid

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PMID26160180
PMCPMC4577008
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