Journal
JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 573-577Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.09067
Keywords
Autoimmune thyroiditis; Iodine; Low-dose irradiation; NOD-H2(h4) mice
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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The previous data regarding the effect of irradiation on thyroid autoimmunity are controversial. We have recently reported the exacerbation of autoimmune thyroiditis by a single low dose (0.5 Gy) of whole body irradiation ill thyroiditis-prone non-obese diabetic (NOD)-H2(h4) mice treated with iodine for 8 weeks. However, it is uncertain in that report whether the results obtained by the provision of iodine in a relatively short period of time (8 weeks) accurately reflects the long-term consequences of low-dose irradiation oil thyroid autoimmunity. Therefore, we repeated these experiments with mice that were monitored after irradiation without iodine treatment for up to 15 months. We found that a single low-dose (0.5 Gy) irradiation increased the incidence and severity of thyroiditis and the incidence and titers of anti-thyroglobulin autoantibodies at 15 months of age. The numbers of splenocytes and percentages of various lymphocyte Subsets were not affected by irradiation. Thus, we conclude that low-dose irradiation also exacerbates late-onset spontaneous thyroiditis in NOD-H2(h4) mice; one plausible explanation for this may be the acceleration of immunological aging by irradiation.
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