Involvement of p53-Dependent Apoptosis in Radiation Teratogenesis and in the Radioadaptive Response in the Late Organogenesis of Mice
Abstract
The irradiation of fetuses at the late period of organogenesis has been known to induce a dramatic increase in malformations. The mechanisms involved, however, have remained unclear for a long time. Using the mouse limb bud system, we first found that radiation-induced apoptosis is involved in the malformation, namely, radiation-induced apoptosis in the predigital regions of embryonic limb buds is responsible for digital defects in mice. An examination of embryonic C57BL/6J mice with different p53 (trp53) status enabled us to further find that susceptibility to radiation-induced apoptosis in the predigital regions and digital defects depend on both the p53 status and the radiation dose; p53 wild-type mice appeared to be the most sensitive, while p53 knockout mice were the most resistant. These results indicate that p53-dependent apoptosis mediates radiation-induced digital defects in the later organogenesis period. The existence of a radioadaptive response in embryonic mice, which has not been reported so far, was found by irradiating embryos with either 5 cGy or 30 cGy on embryonic day 11 prior to a challenging irradiation at 3 Gy on embryonic day 12. p53-heterozygous embryos did not show the radioadaptive response, indicating the involvement of p53 in the radioadaptive response in embryogenesis.
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