Effects of carbon-ion microbeam irradiation on locomotion and pharyngeal pumping motion in

線虫の這行運動及び咽頭ポンピング運動に対する炭素イオンマイクロビーム照射の影響

鈴木 芳代; 服部 佑哉; 坂下 哲哉; 舟山 知夫; 横田 裕一郎; 池田 裕子; 小林 泰彦

Suzuki, Michiyo; Hattori, Yuya; Sakashita, Tetsuya; Funayama, Tomoo; Yokota, Yuichiro; Ikeda, Hiroko; Kobayashi, Yasuhiko

The nematode is a good model system to examine radiation effects on vital functions such as locomotion, feeding, learning and memory. Using , we recently investigated the radiation effects on locomotion (snake-like crawling motion) and found that whole-body irradiation significantly reduced locomotion. Furthermore, we focused on the pharyngeal pumping motion (chewing and swallowing), which is a rapid periodic motion, and found that the proportion of pumping-motion arrest increased after whole-body irradiation. As the next step, we started to examine whether or not the effects observed after whole-body irradiation could be induced by microbeam irradiation to a very limited region. In this report, we summarize the results of microbeam irradiation experiments we carried out in the past few years. Main findings in this study are the following: (1) Effects of the region-specific microbeam irradiation differ depending on types of motion, and (2) effects of whole-body irradiation tend to be more effective than those of the region-specific microbeam irradiation at the same irradiation dose. Further studies on the mechanisms underlying the radiation-induced changes of movements are required.