Spontaneous and radiation-induced chromosomal breakage at interstitial telomeric sites

Chromosoma

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 596-604

  Slijepcevic, P ^a,b   Xiao, Y ^a   Dominguez, I ^a   Natarajan, A T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHINESE HAMSTER; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; RADIATION; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029953096     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00352299     Document Type: Article

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