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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 124, 469-478, Copyright © 1986 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Acute and late radiation injury in rhesus monkey parotid glands. Evidence of interphase cell death

LC Stephens, GK King, LJ Peters, KK Ang, TE Schultheiss and JH Jardine

Acute and chronic salivary gland dysfunction are common sequelae of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer; but the associated morphologic changes, especially of the acute damage, have received relatively little study. For investigation of the morphologic characteristics of acute radiation injury to parotid glands, rhesus monkeys were studied 1- 72 hours after parotid irradiation with single doses of 2.5-15.0 Gy. The acute damage from all doses was clearly expressed by 24 hours. Histologically, parotid glands irradiated with 2.5 or 5.0 Gy had random degeneration and necrosis of the serous acinar cells. Doses of 7.5-15.0 Gy produced widespread degeneration along with necrosis of whole acini. Serous cell damage was accompanied by neutrophilic inflammation that subsided after 24 hours to become replaced by plasma cell and lymphocytic infiltrates. Parotid glands receiving 7.5-15.0 Gy were atrophic at 16-22 weeks after irradiation and showed no recovery by 40 weeks. Although parotid acinar cells are well-differentiated nondividing cells, these observations show that they express lethal radiation injury in interphase within hours of receiving a radiation dose as low as 2.5 Gy. This is unlike most mammalian cells that express radiation injury during mitosis. Chronic atrophy is a consequence of this direct, irreversible, and early injury, rather than the result of radiation-induced changes in the vasculature.


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