The aim of this study was to investigate and quantify the production of spindle disturbances in AL cells, a human-hamster hybrid cell line, by 0.106 THz radiation (continuous wave). Monolayer cultures in petri dishes were exposed for 0.5 h to 0.106 THz radiation with power densities ranging from 0.043 mW/cm2 to 4.3 mW/cm2 or were kept under sham conditions (negative control) for the same period. As a positive control, 100 µg/ml of the insecticide trichlorfon, which is an aneuploidy-inducing agent, was used for an exposure period of 6 h. During exposure, the sample containers were kept at defined environmental conditions in a modified incubator as required by the cells. Based on a total of 6,365 analyzed mitotic cells, the results of two replicate experiments suggest that 0.106 THz radiation is a spindle-acting agent as predominately indicated by the appearance of spindle disturbances at the anaphase and telophase (especially lagging and non-disjunction of single chromosomes) of cell divisions. The findings in the present study do not necessarily imply disease or injury but may be important for evaluating possible underlying mechanisms.
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9 March 2011
Terahertz Radiation Induces Spindle Disturbances in Human-Hamster Hybrid Cells
H. Hintzsche,
C. Jastrow,
T. Kleine-Ostmann,
H. Stopper,
E. Schmid,
T. Schrader
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Radiation Research
Vol. 175 • No. 5
May 2011
Vol. 175 • No. 5
May 2011