An aberration in gamma-ray-enhanced reactivation of irradiated adenovirus in ataxia telangiectasia fibroblasts

Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) is a rare human genetic disorder, whose numerous clinical hallmarks include a predisposition to lymphoreticular cancers and a hypersensitivity to conventional radiotherapy. Furthermore, AT cells in vitro exhibit a hypersensitivity to ionising radiation that appears to be correlated with an increased frequency of chromosomal aberrations, a resistance of de novo DNA synthesis to inhibition by radiation-induced DNA …