Chronic encapsulated expanding hematoma after stereotactic radiosurgery of cerebral arteriovenous malformation

Stereotactic radiosurgery has become excellent alternative treatment for cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM). This technique has expanded to treatment of larger AVM which is not amenable to surgical management. However, its variable adverse effects should be also taken into considerations sincerely because of radiobiological characteristics such as delayed onset and progressive neurological deteriorations. Herein, we report a case in which progressively expanding hemorrhagic cyst with repeated bleedings so called chronic encapsulated expanding hematoma was developed on several years after radiosurgery treatment. Neurological and radiological findings were improved by surgical removal.

Effects of RNA interference-mediated silencing of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 on proliferation, migration, invasion, and radiation-induced effects in Calu-1 cells / 中华放射肿瘤学杂志

Objective To investigate the effects of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor?2 ( VEGFR?2) on proliferation, migration, invasion, and apoptosis after radiotherapy in lung cancer cell line Calu?1, and to explore the probable mechanisms. Methods Small interference RNA ( siRNA )?mediated silencing of VEGFR?2 gene was performed on Calu?1 cells, and the mRNA and protein expression of VEGFR?2 was determined by quantitative real?time PCR and Western blot, respectively. The cells were divided into control group, vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF ) group, VEGFR?2 specific siRNA (siKDR) group, and siKDR+VEGF group. The changes in proliferation, migration, and invasion were evaluated by the CCK8 assay, cell scratch wound?healing assay, and transwell migration assay, respectively. The protein expression of VEGFR?2 and proteins in the related downstream signaling pathway was measured by Western blot. Apoptosis in each group was determined after radiotherapy. Results After RNA interference?mediated silencing of VEGFR?2, the mRNA and protein expression of VEGFR?2 was significantly reduced ( P=0. 001,P=0. 000);the proliferation, migration, and invasion of Calu?1 cells were also significantly reduced ( P=0. 000,P=0. 000,P=0. 000);the phosphorylation levels of AKT, ERK 1/2, and p38 were significantly reduced in Calu?1 cells ( P=0. 336,P=0. 986,P=0. 553);the apoptosis in Calu?1 cells was significantly elevated ( P=0. 0012);the protein expression of HIF?1α was significantly inhibited ( P= 0. 016 ) . Conclusions The VEGFR?2 gene silencing significantly inhibits several physiological functions of Calu?1 cells and elevates the apoptosis rate after radiotherapy.

Roel of Lys63-linked TAK1 poly-ubiquitination at lysine 158 in radiation-induced NF-κB activity / 中华放射医学与防护杂志

Objective To study the role of the transforming growth factor-β-activating kinase 1 (TAK1) poly-ubiquitination in radiation-induced NF-κB activation.Methods FLAG-TAK1 and HA-UbK63 plasmids were transiently transfected into HEK-293T cells.The radiation effect on TAK1 ubiquitination was detected by immunoprecipitation and Western blot,which was further confirmed in FLAG-TAK1 HeLa stable cell line.Results At 1 h after irradiation,Lys 63-1ink TAK1 ubiquitination was induced in the HEK-293T cells with plasmids transfection.This result was further confirmed by using a FLAG-TAK1 stably expressed HeLa cell line.Radiation-induced IKKs and p38 phosphorylation were greatly impaired in MEFs reconstituted with TAK1 K158R mutant compared to ones with wild-type TAK1.Conclusions Lys63-1inked TAK1 poly-ubiquitination at Lys-58 plays a key role in the process of radiation-induced NF-κB activation.

Rapid Progression of Early Delayed Radiation Effect in Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma

Early delayed radiation effects are known to occur within several months after completing radiotherapy for brain tumors. We present marked changes of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan that occurred one month after radiotherapy in a patient with a pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, which was eventually diagnosed as an early delayed radiation effect. Such an early development of dramatic MRI change has not been reported in patients treated with radiotherapy for pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas.

Flow cytometry protocol to evaluate ionizing radiation effects on P-glycoprotein activity

The aim of this work was to establish a protocol to evaluate ionizing radiation effects on P-glycoprotein (P-gp) activity. For this, human peripheral blood samples were irradiated in vitro with different doses and P-gp activity was analyzed for CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes through rhodamine123-efflux assay by flow cytometry. By simultaneous employment of percentage and mean fluorescence index parameters, subject-by-subject analysis pointed out changes in P-gp activity for some individuals and irradiated samples. Based on this work, the proposed protocol was considered adequate for evaluating P-gp activity on cells after radioactive stress. Besides, this research suggests that P-gp activity could be an important factor to define patient-specific protocols in combined chemo-and radiotherapy, particularly when radiation exposure precedes chemical treatment.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi estabelecer um protocolo para avaliar o efeito da radiação ionizante na atividade da glicoproteína-P (gp-P). Para isto, amostras de sangue periférico humano foram irradiadas in vitro com diferentes doses, e a atividade da gp-P foi analisada para os linfócitos T CD4 e CD8 através do ensaio do efluxo da rodamina123 por citometria de fluxo. Por emprego simultâneo dos parâmetros de porcentagem e índice médio de fluorescência, a análise indivíduo por indivíduo apontou mudanças na atividade da gp-P para alguns indivíduos e amostras irradiadas. Com base neste trabalho, o protocolo proposto foi considerado adequado para avaliar a atividade da gp-P em células após estresse radioativo. Além disso, esta pesquisa sugere que a atividade da gp-P poderia ser um importante fator para definir protocolos paciente-específicos envolvendo quimio e radioterapia, particularmente quando a exposição à radiação precede o tratamento químico.

Safety Evaluation for Interventional Radiotherapy with X-ray Angiography / 医疗卫生装备

Objective To evaluate the safety of interventional radiotherapy with X-ray angiography. Methods To compare X-ray radiation levels with and without radioprotect with X-ray protective monitor by simulating operators' body's parts. Results The difference is significant. Conclusion Interventional radiotherapy with angiography with effective protect is safe.

Effect on radiosensitivity of human lung adenocarcinoma cells transfected with wild-type p16 gene / 中国癌症杂志

0.05); The result of FCM indicates that the cells transfected with p16 changed in cell cycle distribution ; proportion of G 2 M phase was increased, while that of S phase was decreased.Conclusions:Introduction of p16 gene into low expression human lung adenocarcinoma cell line Anip973 alters the radiation effect in a way which perhaps was correlated with the inhibition of sublethal damage repair and the cell cycle distribution change, but not in the high expression cell line AGZY83a.

Correlation Study on Clinical Laboratory Findings with Occupational Exposure to Low Dose Ionizing Radiation in Nuclear Workers in Korea / 한국역학회지

PURPOSE: Even though atomic energy and radioisotope had been made for a peaceful purpose, some of the public do't feel safe possibly due to potential exposure to ionizing radiation. While health effects of high level radiation are almost deterministic, the stochastic effects of the 'low-dose radiation' have not come to a correct conclusion. This correlation study was conducted to assess the health effect due to potential exposure th low-dose radiation in the nuclear power plants workers in Korea. METHODS: The study subjects was selected among the nuclear workers. Among those who attend the epidemiologic survey for screening of any malignancies done by the study group of Seoul National University Hospital during 1992-1993, 1) those who had undertaken both the physical examination with clinical laboratory tests and the direct interview with questionnaire, 2) male workers, and 3) those with record on radiation dosimetry as well as employment records in the company. Correlation analysis with Pearson's correlation coefficients and quantitative analysis with normal ranges of various tests were done by the PC-SAS for window. RESULTS: Total cumulative radiation doses was relatively low, ranging 1 mSv at the lowest to 391 mSv at the highest. Moreover, mostly 68.7% of the subjects was within lower limit of total cumulative doses under 10 mSv. Among the clinical laboratory test, statistical significant correlation was see in hemoglobin(HGB), creatinine(CRE), and carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA). CONCLUSION: This study concluded that health effect of occupational exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation is minimal or, if any, extremely lower than expected in the nuclear power plants workers in Korea. Major limitation of this study is that the healthy worker effect could not excluded. A large-scale prospective epidemiologic study on the relationship between radiation exposure and health hazard is needed to draw a more valid conclusion.

Alteration of Phospholipase D Activity in the Rat Tissues by Irradiation / 대한치료방사선과학회지

PURPOSE: Phospholipase D (PLD) catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphatidyl choline to phosphatidic acid (PA) and choline. Recently, PLD has been drawing much attentions and considered to be associated with cancer process since it is involved in cellular signal transduction. In this experiment, oleate-PLD activities were measured in various tissues of the living rats after whole body irradiation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The reaction mixture for the PLD assay contained 0.1microCi 1,2-di[1-14C]palmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, 0.5mM phosphatidylcholine, 5mM sodium oleate, 0.2% taurodeoxycholate, 50mM HEPES buffer (pH 6.5), 10mM CaCl2, and 25mM KF. phosphatidic acid, the reaction product, was separated by TLC and its radioactivity was measured with a scintillation counter. The whole body irradiation was given to the female Wistar rats via Cobalt 60 Teletherapy with field size of 10cm x 10cm and an exposure of 2.7Gy per minute to the total doses of 10Gy and 25Gy. RESULTS: Among the tissues examined, PLD activity in lung was the highest one and was followed by kidney, skeletal muscle, brain, spleen, bone marrow, thymus, and liver. Upon irradiation, alteration of PLD activity was observed in thymus, spleen, lung, and bone marrow. Especially PLD activities of the spleen and thymus revealed the highest sensitivity toward gamma-ray with more than two times amplification in their activities. In contrast, the PLD activity of bone marrow appears to be reduced to nearly 30%. Irradiation effect was hardly detected in liver which showed the lowest PLD activity. CONCLUSION: The PLD activities affected most sensitively by the whole-body irradiation seem to be associated with organs involved in immunity and hematopoiesis. This observation strongly indicates that the PLD is closely related to the physiological function of these organs. Furthermore, radiation stress could offer an important means to explore the phenomena covering from cell proliferation to cell death on these organs.

Radition effect on colony formation of hela.S3(SC) cell line / 영남의대학술지

Since discovery of X-rays, radiotherapy has evolved into one of the most scientific branches of medicine and has established its role as the primary line or the secondary line of attack, after surgery,. in the treatment of malignant cancers. Nowadays its importance is illustrated by the fact that as many as 70 per cent of all pastients with cancer will receive radiation therapy at sometime during their disease process. Biologic effects-of X-rays began to be apparant soon after the discovery by Roentgen in 1895. In clinical radiotherapy, the biologic endpoint of most importance is loss of cellular reproductive ability or clonogenicity. One of the commonest ;nays to assess cell survival is to use an in vitro plating assay. We analyzed radiation effect on colony formation of HaLa. S3(SC) cell line and obtained results are as follows The plating efficiency is 0.464. The shape of cell survival curve is similar to multi-target plus single hit component model. Estimated values of Do, Dq, and extrapolation number are 150 cGy, 80 cGy and 1.7 respectively. We reported these experimental data with review of literature.

Analysis on Changes of Tongue Fur After Radiation on the Tongue, Analysis of 53 Cases / 中医杂志

53 cases of tumor of the head received radiotherapy during 1993 - 1995. Their tongue had received a rather high dosage of radial therapy. 44/53 cases had their tongue for thickened (P 0, 05). After radiotherapy, 36/53 cases had their tongue fur became scanty or even totally uncoated (P

Radioreponse of neurogliocytes in the hippocampus of rat brain / 中华放射肿瘤学杂志

Objective To identify the radiation effect on different kinds of neurogliocytes in the hippocampus of rat brain and its dose, time relationship.Methods The brain sections were immunohistochemically stained separately with glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), 2'3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNPase) and CD11b(OX-42), to label the astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglial cells respectively. The number of GFAP, CNPase, and OX-42 positive cells in hippocampus were recorded and the data were analyzed by the Student's t test. Results By comparison with the unirradiated hemibrain, the relative number of GFAP and OX-42 positive cells increased in the hippocampus and the CNPase positive cells decreased in the irradiat hemibrain. The degree of change was both dose and time related and it was most significant at three months after 30?Gy irradiation. Conclusions The quantitative variation of different neurogliocytes in the hippocampus suggests that in addition to the decreasing traditional oligodendrocyte lineage, other increasing phenotypes, such as the astrocytes and microglial cells, as well as cellular interactions may also be involved in the pathogenetic process of brain radiation injury in the early stage.

Delayed Radiation Necrosis in Both Temporal Lobes: A Case Report

The incidence of delayed radiation necrosis is reported to be 0.5% to 5%. Recently, the incidence of delayed radiation necrosis has been increasing due to three major causes. Firstly, the radiation dose is increasing to treat malignant brain tumors aggressively. Secondly, new diagnostic tools such as high resolution brain CT and magnetic resonance imaging enable the precise detection. Finally, survival time after radiation therapy is prolonged so that delayed radiation effect comes out. We experienced one case of delayed radiation necrosis at the temporal lobes after total 11,000 rads irradiation for nasopharyngeal cancer. We report this case with brief reviews of the articles.

Influence of low dose X-irradiation on enkephalin and endocrine hormone in male mice / 中国病理生理杂志

C_(57)BL/G male mice were immunized with SRBC 9 hr after 75 mGy whole body X-irradiation. The hypothalamic M-Enk and L-Enk contents were decreased. Serum TS level kept on fluctuating over the control level. The change of testicular cAMP content was not in the same direction as that of the TS. The change of serum CS level was opposite to that of serum TS, These results suggest that the low dose radiation probably cause the changes of neuroendocrine function, leading to the decrement of hypothalamic EOP contents, the supression of CRF-ACTH-CS axis activity and the enhancement of GnRH-LH-TS axis activity.

The Effect of ~60Co?-ray on Antibody-secreting Cell and Its Dose-response Relation / 第二军医大学学报

The mice B lymphocyte hybridoma cells were irradiated by 60Co?-rays with doses of 1, 2, 4, 6. 8Gy. A markedly dose-relation depression in cell survival rate, cell concentration and clone-forming rate was observed. D37 value of clone-forming rate was 8.26 Gy. Dose-relation depression was also observed in total production of monoclonal antibody of clones. But production of monoclonal antibody per clone was raised with radiation doses. These results indicate that ionization radiation depresses the survival activity of hybridoma cells, but stimulates the secretion of monoclonal antibody of survival cells.

Radiation Effect on Body Weight and Hematological Changes of Hybrid Mice by Conventional Fraction, Large Abdominal FieldIrradiation / 대한치료방사선과학회지

Radiation effect on mammals, especially on hematologic changes, has been studied since discovery of x-ay. Various experimental animals were tried for radiobiological studies. 72 hybrid mice with conventional ffaction (5X/week), large abdominal field (2 x3cm, from symphysis pubic to xyphoid process) were used. Body weight was declined gradually by increasing irradiation doses, nadir was about 29.7% in male ; 30.4% in female at 6000 rad irradiation group. Hemoglobin value was nearly normal throughout entire treatment. Significant dropping of WBC count was noted to 40-0% of pretreatment values by only 1000 rad irradiation. Change of differential count was interesting; lymphocyte proportion showed gradual reduction, instead of gradual increasing of segmented neutrophil. Those proportion were reversed after 6000 rad irradiation. Urinary protein tests showed + - +++, showing no correlation with dosage. Application. of our study in clinical combination therapy (radiation + chemotherapy) was discussed.