The oncogenic transforming potential of the passage of single α particles through mammalian cell nuclei

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-22

  Miller, Richard C ^a   Randers Pehrson, Gerhard ^a   Geard, Charles R ^a   Hall, Eric J ^a   Brenner, David J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ALPHA PARTICLES; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FIBROBLASTS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADON; URANIUM;

EID: 0033524461     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.1.19     Document Type: Article

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