STOREDB:STUDY1239 Mathematical modeling of low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity and induced radioresistance [DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1239]

Study meta-data


STUDYIDSTOREDB:STUDY1239
CREATEDON2026-07-06 12:43:06
MODIFIEDON2026-07-06 13:39:58
UPLOADERBalázs G. Madas
DOIDOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1239

Study details


STUDY NAME
Mathematical modeling of low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity and induced radioresistance
STUDY STATUS
Published: Open access to everyone
STUDY TYPE
09-13-00 - Mathematical Modelling study
DATA SHARING POLICY
CC-Attribution
COUNTRY
Hungary
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Szabolcs Polgár, Balázs Madas
SPECIES
Multiple
RADONORM RESEARCH PRIORITY
Other activities contributing to low-dose risk research
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL EXPOSURE
External
TYPE OF EXTERNAL EXPOSURE
mixed
EXPOSURE PATTERN
Acute
DOSE RATE
Mixed
BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE AVAILABLE
No
ECOLOGICAL DATA
No
STUDY DESCRIPTION
Low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) and induced radioresistance (IRR) are unexpected features of cellular survival curves that challenge classical radiobiological models. While often interpreted phenomenologically, their underlying biological purpose remains unclear. Here we propose that these effects reflect an evolved strategy by which tissues minimise mutational burden through context-dependent cell elimination. We introduce the Minimum Mutation Load (MML) model, a principle-based framework in which irradiated cells assess their survival based on local intercellular signals that reflect neighbourhood damage. This cooperative behaviour balances the benefit of removing highly damaged cells with the mutational cost of their replacement.

Acknowledgements
This study is part of the RadoNorm project which has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2019–2020 under grant agreement No 900009. The study was also supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BGM, bo-37-2021), and the ÚNKP-22-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (BGM, ÚNKP-22-5-BME-299).

STOREDB:DATASET1362 First version of the Minimum Mutation Load model [DOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1239/1362]


Created on:2026-07-06 12:49:41
Modified On:2026-07-06 14:28:20
DATASET NAME
First version of the Minimum Mutation Load model
DOIDOI:10.20348/STOREDB/1239/1362
LINK TO FILE
https://zenodo.org/records/20846430
TASK
RadoNorm Task 3.6
DELIVERABLE
RadoNorm Deliverable 3.6
DATASET DESCRIPTION
A Jupyter notebook implementing the Minimum Mutation Load (MML) model for simulating clonogenic survival after irradiation. The model assigns radiation-induced mutagenic damage to individual cells and determines survival based on each cell’s damage relative to a distance-weighted signal from neighbouring cells.


The authors thank Márton Juhász for suggestions on the improvement of the readability of the Python code.