Increasing radiosensitivity in the course of fractionated X irradiation: The effect of contact with dead and dying cells

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-282

  Djordjevic, Bozidar ^a   Lange, Christopher S ^a   Rotman, Marvin Z ^a   Torres, Camilo ^a   Zheng, Zihwa ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 0031654598     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579976     Document Type: Article

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