Changes in the repair capacity of blood cells as a biomarker for chronic low-dose exposure to ionizing radiation

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-160

  Plappert, Ulla G ^a   Stocker, Bernd ^a   Fender, Helga ^b   Fliedner, Theodor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Human biomonitoring; Radiation induced; Radioiodine therapy; Repair capacity; SCG assay

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD CELL; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; RADIATION DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD; CARCINOMA; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION MONITORING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030882595     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1997)30:2<153::AID-EM8>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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