X-ray sensitivity of fifty-three human diploid fibroblast cell strains from patients with characterized genetic disorders

Cancer Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1980, Pages 920-925

  Weichselbaum, Ralph R ^a   Nove, John ^a   Little, John B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CELL LINE; ETIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEREDITY; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL TRISOMY 13; PROGENY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RETINOBLASTOMA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGERIA; RETINOBLASTOMA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; X-RAYS;

EID: 0018890926     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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