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Studies of the 'Adaptive' Repair Response in Human Lymphocytes and V79 Cells after Treatment with MNNG and MNU

The British Industrial Biological Research Association, Woodmansteme Road, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4DS

P. Fisher

Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HR, UK

P.C. Jenkinson

The British Industrial Biological Research Association, Woodmansteme Road, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4DS

B.J. Phillips

The British Industrial Biological Research Association, Woodmansteme Road, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4DS

In bacteria, there is evidence that a damage inducible repair response system known as the adaptive response exists since pretreatment with low doses of a simple monofunctional alkylating agent leads to a decrease in both the lethal and mutagenic effects of a subsequent challenge dose of the agent. The evidence for an analagous system in mammalian cells has proved to be inconsistent to date. The induction of chromosome repair mechanisms in human cells by low-dose radiation from tritiated thymidine has been shown to make the cells refractory to the induction of chromosome aberrations by X-rays. The present communication investigates the induction of an adaptive response in human lymphocytes from four donors and V79 cells using SCE and mutation as endpoints and MNNG and MNU for the adapting and challenging treatment. It is clear that a reproducible model of the adaptive response in human lymphocytes is difficult to establish because of the variability between different donors and different culture times. In V79 cells, assays with much larger cell numbers are required to detect a reproducible response with such small changes in mutant frequency. To demonstrate an adaptive response conclusively in mammalian cells will probably require the use of more sensitive experimental protocols and alternative methods of administration of adaptive doses of mutagen.

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 337-341 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/096032718800700407


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