Cancer risk in space due to radiation assessed by determining cell lethality and mutation frequencies of prokaryotes and a plasmid during the Second International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) space shuttle experiment

Oncology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 691-695

  Harada, Kazuki ^a   Obiya, Yurino ^a   Nakano, Tatsuo ^b   Kawashima, Michisuke ^a   Miki, Takahito ^c   Kobayashi, Yasuhiko ^d   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^d   Okaichi, Kumio ^e   Ohnishi, Takeo ^f   Mukai, Chiaki ^g   Nagaoka, Shunji ^g  

^a PL Gakuen Women's Junior College   (Japan)

^b PL Comprehensive Institute   (Japan)

^c Church of Perfect Liberty   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Escherichia coli; High LET cosmic radiation; IML 2; pZ 189; Space experiment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030800118     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.4.4.691     Document Type: Article

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