The effect of gamma irradiation on cell division in tissue culture in vitro

Abstract

The experiments described in the following paper were carried out in order to study the quantitative effects of gamma radiation upon mitosis in tissue cultures in vitro. They form part of a larger investigation into the causes of the disappearance of certain types of new growth as a result of irradiation. Strangeways and Oakley carried out qualitative experiments with X-rays on tissue cultures in vitro. They showed that there was a diminution in the number of cells undergoing mitosis. This has subsequently been shown in the case of radium by Canti and Donaldson.