Rejoining and misrejoining of radiation-induced chromatin breaks. III. Hypertonic treatment

Radiation Research

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-74

  Durante, M ^a   George, K ^b   Wu, H L ^c   Yang, T C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b KRUG Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0031962473     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579683     Document Type: Article

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