The influence of sex on life shortening and tumor induction in CBA/Cne mice exposed to X rays or fission neutrons

Radiation Research

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-87

  Di Majo, Vincenzo ^a   Coppola, Mario ^a   Rebessi, Simonetta ^a   Saran, Anna ^a   Pazzaglia, Simonetta ^a   Pariset, Lorraine ^a   Covelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISSION NEUTRON; LIFESPAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; SURVIVAL TIME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X RAY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUTRONS; SEX FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 0029947685     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579399     Document Type: Article

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