Radiation-induced bystander effects—implications for cancer

CB Seymour, C Mothersill - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2004 - nature.com
The term radiation-induced bystander effects describes a situation where cells that have not
been directly exposed to ionizing radiation behave as though they have been exposed: they …

Biological stress response terminology: integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose–response framework

…, RO McClellan, HM Mehendale, C Mothersill… - Toxicology and applied …, 2007 - Elsevier
Many biological subdisciplines that regularly assess dose–response relationships have
identified an evolutionarily conserved process in which a low dose of a stressful stimulus …

The involvement of calcium and MAP kinase signaling pathways in the production of radiation-induced bystander effects

…, B McClean, C Seymour, C Mothersill - Radiation …, 2006 - meridian.allenpress.com
Lyng, FM, Maguire, P., McClean, B., Seymour, C. and Mothersill, C. The Involvement of Calcium
and MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways in the Production of Radiation-Induced Bystander …

A dose threshold for a medium transfer bystander effect for a human skin cell line

Z Liu, CE Mothersill, FE McNeill, FM Lyng… - Radiation …, 2006 - meridian.allenpress.com
… This technique has been described in detail by Mothersill and Seymour (6). The previous
results showed that contact times after irradiation from 30 min to 24 h resulted in no significant …

Radiation-induced bystander effects: past history and future directions

C Mothersill, C Seymour - Radiation research, 2001 - meridian.allenpress.com
… Very recent work by Mothersill, Seymour and Joiner (unpublished results) has looked at the
relationship of the bystander effect to low-dose hypersensitivity using γ radiation. Both effects …

Cell-cell contact during gamma irradiation is not required to induce a bystander effect in normal human keratinocytes: evidence for release during irradiation of a …

C Mothersill, CB Seymour - Radiation research, 1998 - meridian.allenpress.com
Killing of unirradiated cells by medium from cultures of irradiated cells implies the release of
a cytotoxic substance by the irradiated cells. The finding of the γ-ray-induced cytotoxic effect …

High yields of lethal mutations in somatic mammalian cells that survive ionizing radiation

CB Seymour, C Mothersill, T Alper - International Journal of …, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
When mammalian cells are irradiated in vitro, the component cells of a normal-appearing
survivor colony or clone are commonly thought to have proliferative capacity equivalent to that …

Relative contribution of bystander and targeted cell killing to the low-dose region of the radiation dose–response curve

CB Seymour, C Mothersill - Radiation research, 2000 - meridian.allenpress.com
… This problem was discussed by Mothersill and Seymour (17), and the data demonstrating
the likely relevance of this to radiation carcinogenesis have been published (18). Clearly, the …

The use of Fish Cells in Ecotoxicology: The Report and Recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 47,

…, K Kawahara, LEJ Lee, C Mothersill… - Alternatives to …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
This is the report of the forty-seventh of a series of workshops organised by the European
Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM). ECVAM’s main goal, as defined in …

Causes of genome instability: the effect of low dose chemical exposures in modern society

…, L Memeo, C Mondello, C Mothersill… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Genome instability is a prerequisite for the development of cancer. It occurs when genome
maintenance systems fail to safeguard the genome’s integrity, whether as a consequence of …