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Mutagenesis, Vol. 15, No. 1, 39-43, January 2000
© 2000 UK Environmental Mutagen Society/Oxford University Press

A comparison of enzyme activity mutation frequencies in germ cells of mice (Mus musculus) and golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) after exposure to 2 + 2 Gy {gamma}-irradiation

Walter Pretsch1, Angelika Neuhäuser-Klaus and Jack Favor

GSF–National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany

The radiation-induced germ cell mutation rate has been investigated in two species of mammals. Mice and golden hamsters of both sexes were exposed to 2 + 2 Gy {gamma}-irradiation with a 24 h fractionation interval and mated to untreated partners. In mice, specific locus mutations were examined as positive controls and the obtained mutation rates (per locus and gamete x10–5) were 51.4, 10.1, 13.6 and 17.4 for irradiated post-spermatogonia, spermatogonia and 1–7 and >7 days post-treatment oocytes, respectively. Offspring of mice and golden hamsters were screened for activity alterations of 10 erythrocyte enzymes coded by at least 14 loci. The observed mutation rates per locus per gamete x10–5 for treated post-spermatogonial stages, spermatogonia and oocytes 1–7 and >7 days post-treatment were 6.5, 1.5, 8.8 and 7.0, respectively, for mice and 16.7, 0, 7.6 and 0, respectively, for golden hamsters. There is a significant difference for mutation rates in mouse oocytes 1–7 days post-treatment compared with the control. No differences in the frequencies of mutations in the various germ cell stages could be observed between mice and golden hamsters. A critical assumption for the extrapolation of experimental mutagenesis studies to humans is that no species effects exist in sensitivity to mutation induction by irradiation. Our results do not contradict this assumption.

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 89 3187 2642; Fax: +49 89 3187 3099; Email: pretsch{at}gsf.de


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