Radiation sensitivity of lymphocytes from healthy individuals and cancer patients as measured by the comet assay

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-89

  Müller, Wolfgang Ulrich ^a   Bauch, Thomas ^a   Stüben, Georg ^a   Sack, Horst ^a   Streffer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRRADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SMOKING; X RAY;

COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; X-RAYS;

EID: 0035019950     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110000087     Document Type: Article

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