Synergy Theory in Radiobiology

Radiation Research
Dae Woong HamRainer K Sachs

Abstract

Customized open-source software is used to characterize, exemplify, compare and critically evaluate mathematical/computational synergy analysis methods currently used in biology, and used or potentially applicable in radiobiology. As examples, we reanalyze some published results on murine Harderian gland tumors and on in vitro chromosome aberrations induced by exposure to single-ion radiations that simulate components of the galactic cosmic ray field. Baseline no-synergy/no-antagonism-mixture dose-effect relationships are calculated for corresponding mixed fields. No new experimental results are presented. Synergy analysis of effects due to a mixed radiation field whose components' individual dose-effect relationships are highly curvilinear should not consist of simply comparing to the sum of the components' effects. Such curvilinearity must often be allowed for in current radiobiology, especially when studying possible non-targeted ("bystander") effects. Consequently, many different synergy analysis theories are currently used in biology to replace simple effect additivity. We give evidence that for most synergy experiments and observations, incremental effect additivity is the most appropriate replacement. It has a large doma...Continue Reading

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