Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (6): 421-427.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2019.06.001

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Effects of gender and age on expression of radiation-responsive genes in irradiated human peripheral blood samples

LI Shuang, LU Xue, FENG Jiangbin, TIAN Mei, CAI Tianjing, LIU Qingjie   

  1. China CDC Key Laboratory of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Emergency, National Institute for Radiological Protection, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100088, China
  • Received:2019-07-15 Revised:2019-11-11 Online:2019-11-30 Published:2019-12-04

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of gender and age on the changes in expression of radiation-responsive genes in irradiated human peripheral blood samples. METHODS: Human peripheral blood samples from 30 adult donors was acutely exposed to 60Co γ-rays at doses of 0,0.5,1,2,3,4,6 and 8 Gy with the dose rate of 1 Gy/min. Irradiated peripheral blood samples were subsequently incubated at 37-C for 12 h. The effects of gender and age on changes in radiation-responsive gene expressions were analyzed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). RESULTS: The relative mRNA expression levels of 18 radiation-responsive genes were significantly up-regulated in a dose-dependent manner at 12 h after the irradiation (R2=0.63-0.97,P < 0.05). However,the relative mRNA expression levels of MDM2,XPC,FDXR,DDB2,ASTN2 and TNFSF4 showed approximately fivefold variabilities among different individual samples which were irradiated with the same does. Radiation-induced transcriptional changes of BAX,TNFRSF10B,ASTN2,TNFSF4,POLH and GADD45A in female samples were significantly higher than that in male samples (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01). Expression levels of MDM2,FDXR,DDB2 and RPS27L showed differences between four age groups after exposure to 0.5-8 Gy of γ-rays (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: The changes in expression of radiation-responsive genes in blood samples demonstrate significant inter-individual variations which were mainly related to the gender and age of the individual donors.

Key words: ionizing radiation, gene expression, gender, age, inter-individual variation

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