Survival and diseases in C57BL mice exposed to X rays or 3.1 MeV neutrons at an age of 7 or 21 days

Radiation Research

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 453-460

  Maisin, Jean René ^a   Gerber, Georg B ^b   Vankerkom, Jan ^b   Wambersie, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; SURVIVAL; X IRRADIATION;

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EID: 0029760716     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579307     Document Type: Article

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