Size distributions of misrejoining DNA fragments in irradiated cells

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-136

  Radivoyevitch, Tomas ^a   Hoel, David G ^a   Hahnfeldt, Philip ^b   Sachs, Rainer K ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fragment sizes; Double strand break; Misrejoining; SSEB model

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; KARYOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ETHIDIUM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; KARYOTYPING; MODELS, GENETIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 0031841466     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(98)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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