The effects of lattice water on free radical yields in X-irradiated crystalline pyrimidines and purines: A low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance investigation

Radiation Research

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 560-568

  Mroczka, Nicholas E ^a   Mercer, Kermit R ^a   Bernhard, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDRATION; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030912875     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579622     Document Type: Article

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