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ArticleJournal of radiation research2020

Association between low doses of ionizing radiation, administered acutely or chronically, and time to onset of stroke in a rat model.

Norio Takahashi, Munechika Misumi, Hideko Murakami, Yasuharu Niwa, Waka Ohishi, Toshiya Inaba, Akiko Nagamachi, Gen Suzuki

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Article in Journal of radiation research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Norio TakahashiRadiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
Munechika MisumiDepartment of Statistics, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hideko MurakamiDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
Yasuharu NiwaDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan.
Waka OhishiClinical Studies (Hiroshima), Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), Hiroshima, Japan.
Toshiya InabaDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Leukemia Program Project, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Akiko NagamachiDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Leukemia Program Project, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Gen SuzukiInternational University of Health and Welfare Clinic, Otawara, Tochigi, Japan.
Radiation Effects Research Foundation · JPHiroshima University · JPInternational University of Health and Welfare · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to high-doses of ionizing radiation has been reported to be associated with the risk of stroke. However, risks associated with lower dose exposures remain unclear, and there is little information available for the risk modification according to the dose-rate. There are few studies using animal models which might be able to provide complementary information on this association. In this study, the male stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP) was used as a model animal. The rats were acutely irradiated with doses between 0 and 1.0 Gy or chronically irradiated with a cumulative dose of 0.5 or 1.0 Gy (at a dose rate of 0.05 or 0.1 Gy/day, respectively). The onset time of stroke related symptoms in SHRSP was used as an endpoint for evaluating the effects of low dose and the low dose-rate gamma-ray exposures. With respect to acute exposure, the time to the onset of stroke in the irradiated rats suggested the presence of a threshold around 0.1 Gy. For the low dose-rate chronically exposed, no significant increase in stroke symptom was observed. These findings are novel and demonstrate that the SHRSP system can be used to determine the association between the risk of stroke and radiation exposure with high sensitivity. Moreover, these studies provide important information regarding the association between the low dose and low dose-rate radiation exposure and circulatory diseases, especially stroke.

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Radiation, IonizingAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDose-Response Relationship, RadiationKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleProportional Hazards ModelsStrokeTime FactorsLow dose radiationLow dose-rate radiationStrokeStroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP)Threshold

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PMID32748938
PMCPMC7482173
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