The micronucleus assay of lymphocytes is a useful predictive assay of the radiosensitivity of normal tissue: A study of three inbred strains of mice

Radiation Research

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 341-347

  Kinashi, Yuko ^a   Ono, Koji ^a   Abe, Mitsuyuki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INBRED STRAIN; MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CYTOCHALASIN B; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GAMMA RAYS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; JEJUNUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030880756     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579519     Document Type: Article

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