Effects of gamma rays in the 0.5-50-cGy range on the conformation of chromatin in mammalian cells

Radiation Research

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 687-693

  Belyaev, Igor Ya ^a,b   Harms Ringdahl, Mats ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RAT; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHROMATIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FIBROBLASTS; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029952323     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579359     Document Type: Article

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