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  • Title: Time dependence of Elkind-type recovery in class B oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster.
    Author: Steiner T, Würgler FE.
    Journal: Int J Radiat Biol Relat Stud Phys Chem Med; 1979 Sep; 36(3):217-22. PubMed ID: 115806.
    Abstract:
    Recovery from X-ray-induced damage in class B oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster was studied by the dose-fractionation technique. A total dose of 500 R was delivered either as a single exposure or as two fractions of 2000 R and 3000 R separated by increasing time intervals. The use of attached-X females made it possible to study simultaneously the induction of dominant lethals and of chromosome aberrations (detachments of the attached-X chromosome). The same repair kinetics were observed for sublethal damage and for the lesions leading to detachments. The time-response curves are of similar shape: a plateau is reached within 20 to 30 min and half of the repairable damage disappears in 5 to 7 min. It is concluded that the same type of X-ray-induced primary lesion in chromosomes is responsible for the induction of detachments and for dominant lethals. As primary lesions actual chromosome breaks or lesions leading to breaks and chromosome rearrangements are assumed.
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