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  • Title: Greater sparing of stromal progenitor cells than of haemopoietic stem cells in gamma-irradiated mouse marrow using low dose-rates.
    Author: Hendry JH, Wang SB, Testa NG.
    Journal: Biomed Pharmacother; 1984; 38(7):356-8. PubMed ID: 6525432.
    Abstract:
    The Do value for fibroblastoid colony-forming units in mouse bone-marrow increased from 1.7 Gy using gamma-rays at 4.2 Gy/minute, to 2.6 Gy at 4.5 cGy/minute. In contrast, the sensitivity of bone-marrow stem cells was very little changed (Do approximately equal to 0.9 Gy). At 7.5 Gy acute single dose, the dose sparing achieved for CFU-F using 4.5 cGy/minute was a factor of 1.4, in between the values reported for lung of 1.8 and for haemopoiesis of 1.2. Although the role of CFU-F in the haemopoietic environment has not been established, the content of CFU-F can predict the ability of irradiated marrow to sustain haemopoiesis in the long term. Hence the data imply that the haemopoietic environment, as well as the dose-limiting lung, benefits from the use of low dose-rates for haemopoietic ablations in the treatment of leukaemia. No significant further sparing of CFU-F was achieved using a lower dose-rate of 1.4 cGy per minute.
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