Two-stage model of radon-induced malignant lung tumors in rats: Effects of cell killing

Radiation Research

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-173

  Luebeck, E Georg ^a   Curtis, Stanley B ^a   Cross, Fred T ^b   Moolgavkar, Suresh H ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; LUNG TUMOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS;

NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 45-10; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NASA PROGRAM RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CLONE CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030046717     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579171     Document Type: Article

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