radioresistance

The comparison below is meant to give an indication of radioresistance for different species.

Milnesium tardigradum has been found to have a high level of radioresistance.

The encoded protein is thought to have a potential role in the induced radioresistance.

There is strong evidence that radioresistance can be genetically determined and inherited, at least in some organisms.

Radioresistance of cancer cells may be intrinsic or induced by the radiation therapy itself.

Radioresistance may be induced by exposure to small doses of ionizing radiation.

A persistent question regarding D. radiodurans is how such a high degree of radioresistance could evolve.

Radioresistance is surprisingly high in many organisms, in contrast to previously held views.

Fibronectin 1 acts as a potential biomarker for radioresistance.

In vitro and animal experiments are informative, but radioresistance varies greatly across species.

Radioresistance is also a term sometimes used in medicine (oncology) for cancer cells which are difficult to treat with radiotherapy.

Radioresistance is the property of organisms that are capable of living in environments with very high levels of ionizing radiation.

A team of Russian and American scientists proposed that the radioresistance of D. radiodurans had a Martian origin.

It was suggested that possible molecular mechanisms responsible for the high radioresistance in Lepidoptera might include an inducible cell recovery system and a DNA repair probes.

Unlike other organisms, cell survival in Thermococcus gammatolerans is not altered by changing conditions in its growth phase, but the lack of ideal conditions and nutrients decreases its radioresistance.

Valerie Mattimore of Louisiana State University has suggested the radioresistance of D. radiodurans is simply a side effect of a mechanism for dealing with prolonged cellular desiccation (dryness).

Heinrich Nöthel, a geneticist from the Freie Universität Berlin carried out the most extensive study about radioresistance mutations using the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, in a series of 14 publications.

There are generally big differences in radioresistance between experiments due to small number of specimens and being unable to control the testing environment (the number for human for instance was determined from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in WWII).

Several bacteria of comparable radioresistance are now known, including some species of the genus Chroococcidiopsis (phylum cyanobacteria) and some species of Rubrobacter (phylum actinobacteria); among the archaea, the species Thermococcus gammatolerans shows comparable radioresistance.