Tumour induction by methyl-nitroso-urea following preconceptional paternal contamination with plutonium-239

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-311

  Lord, B I ^a   Woolford, L B ^a   Wang, L ^a   Stones, V A ^b   McDonald, D ^b   Lorimore, S A ^b   Papworth, D ^b   Wright, E G ^b   Scott, D ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Radiat and Genome Stability U   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome damage; Haemopoiesis; Methyl nitroso urea; Microenvironment; Preconception paternal irradiation; Transgenerational leukaemogenesis; emitting radionuclides

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PLUTONIUM 239;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT F; COLONY FORMING UNIT S; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATHER; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IRRADIATION; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SPLEEN;

EID: 0031843393     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1998.491     Document Type: Article

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