Abstract

It has been suggested that the yield of micronuclei in human peripheral blood lymphocytes could be used as a biological dosimeter in cases of radiation exposure. In the present study micronuclei were induced in lymphocytes by exposing human blood samples in vitro to various doses of Cs-137 γ-rays. The blood samples were then cultivated using the cytokinesis block method. Coded programs were employed to establish the relationships between the frequencies of micronuclei and various doses of γ-rays. The best fit was obtained by the linear-quadratic model, Y = c + a D + b d 2, where Y is the yield of micronuclei, D is the dose in Gy and c, a, b, are constants. It seems there is a correlation between the yields of MN in mononuclear cells and the corresponding doses of radiation. Therefore an attempt was made to include these MN in the calculation of the dose-response relationship.

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