Treatment of mice with stem bark extract of Aphanamixis polystachya reduces radiation-induced chromosome damage

International Journal of Radiation Biology
G C Jagetia, Venkatasubbaiah Ashoka Kumar Venkatesha

Abstract

Normal tissue radiosensitivity is the major limiting factor in radiotherapy of cancer. The use of phytochemicals may reduce the adverse effects of radiation in normal tissue. The effect of ethyl acetate fraction of Aphanamixis polystachya (EAP) was investigated on the radiation-induced chromosome damage in the bone marrow cells of Swiss albino mice exposed to various doses of gamma-radiation. The mice were divided into two groups, one group was exposed to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 Gy of gamma-radiation, while another group received 7.5 mg/kg body weight (BW) of EAP 1 h before exposure to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 Gy of gamma-radiation. Various asymmetrical chromosome aberrations were studied in the bone marrow cells of mice at 12, 24 or 48 h post-irradiation. To understand the mechanism of action of the free radical scavenging activity of 0, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 microg/ml EAP, assays were carried out in vitro. Irradiation of mice to different doses of gamma radiation caused a dose dependent elevation in the frequency of aberrant cells and chromosome aberrations like chromatid breaks, chromosome breaks, dicentrics, acentric fragments and total aberrations at all the post-irradiation times studied. The maximum asymmetrical aberratio...Continue Reading

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