A pilot study of radiation-induced bystander effect in radio-adapting frogs at a radiologically contaminated site located on the chalk river laboratories property

Purpose To measure medium borne bystander effects, to study the influence of radioadaptive response (RAR) on bystander response, and to discover reliable radioresponsive biomarkers in radio-adapting frogs from Duke Swamp contaminated with an above-background radiation level and in naïve frogs from Twin Lake as the background control site.Materials and methods Frogs were captured at Duke Swamp and Twin Lake and brought to the lab at the Canadian...