Estrogen enhanced cell-cell signalling in breast cancer cells exposed to targeted irradiation

BMC Cancer

Table 1 The predicted yield of MN and the measured yield of bystander MN.

	MCF-7 cells				MDA-MB-231 cells
	Predicted Y_MN		Bystander Y_MN		Predicted Y_MN		Bystander Y_MN
Fraction of irradiated cells	1 ³He²⁺	5 ³He²⁺	1 ³He²⁺	5 ³He²⁺	1 ³He²⁺	5 ³He²⁺	1 ³He²⁺	5 ³He²⁺
1%	0.071	0.071	0.026 (27.1%)	0.037 (34.3%)	0.308	0.309	0.024 (7.2%)	0.019 (5.8%)
10%	0.084	0.091	0.039 (31.9%)	0.054 (37.5%)	0.330	0.343	0.054 (14.0%)	0.080 (18.9%)
20%	0.098	0.11	0.044 (31.0%)	0.077 (40.1%)	0.354	0.380	0.069 (16.4%)	0.080 (17.4%)

A fraction of cells within the MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 populations were individually irradiated with a precise number of ³He²⁺ particles. Data in parentheses are the bystander MN as a percentage of total MN.

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