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Table 4 DDR/R of prostate cancer cells after carbon ion/proton irradiation

From: Does particle radiation have superior radiobiological advantages for prostate cancer cells? A systematic review of in vitro studies

Author, year

Treatment

Outcome

Finds

Wang 2019

Carbon ion irradiation

Cell cycle checkpoints

↑miR‐16‐5p; G0-/G1-phase arrest

Srivastava 2018

Carbon ion irradiation + PNKPi

Cell cycle checkpoints

Apoptosis

G2-/M-phase arrest

Inducing the apoptosis through apoptotic body and nucleosomal DNA ladder formation

Suetens 2016

Carbon ion irradiation

DSB repair

Cell cycle checkpoints

↑γ-H2AX foci numbers and foci occupancy

Permanent G2-/M-phase arrest

Chen 2020

Proton irradiation

DSB repair

↑levels of γ-H2AX

Wang 2020

Carbon ion irradiation

DSB repair

Cell cycle checkpoints Apoptosis

↑γ-H2AX foci numbers, lasting time and size

G2-/M-phase arrest

The rates of apoptosis were 27.34% and 37.93% after 2 and 4 Gy carbon ion irradiation, respectively (versus 14.1% and 23.59% following 2 and 4 Gy X-ray irradiation, respectively)

  1. DDR/R DNA damage response and repair, PNKPi polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase inhibitor, DSB DNA double-strand break
  2. ↑, increase