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Transcriptomic and Secretomic Profiling of Isolated Leukocytes Exposed to Alpha-Particle and Photon Radiation - Applications in Biodosimetry

The general public is at risk of ionising-radiation exposure. The development of high-throughput methods to triage exposures is warranted. Current biodosimetry techniques are low-throughput and encumbered by time and technical expertise. Although there has been an emergence of gene-profiling tools for the purpose of photon biodosimetry, similar capacities do not exist for alpha-particle radiation. Herein is the first genomic study useful for alpha-particle radiation biodosimetric triage. This work has identified robust alpha-particle induced gene-based biomarkers in isolated, ex-vivo irradiated leukocytes from multiple donors. It was found that alpha-particle and photon radiation elicited similar transcriptional responses, which could potentially be distinguished by aggregate-signature analysis. Although no distinct genes were sole indicators of exposure type, clustering algorithms and principal component analysis were able to demarcate radiation type with some success. By comparing the biological effects elicited by photon and alpha-particle radiation, significant contributions have been made to the field of radiation biodosimetry.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/26081
Date January 2013
CreatorsHowland, Matthew
ContributorsMilne, Ross
PublisherUniversité d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Source SetsUniversité d’Ottawa
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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