Potential late health effects of depleted uranium and tungsten used in armor-piercing munitions: Comparison of neoplastic transformation and genotoxicity with the known carcinogen nickel

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 120-122

  Miller, Alexandra C ^a   Xu, Jiaquan ^a   Stewart, Michael ^a   Prasanna, Pataje G S ^a   Page, Natalie ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; CARCINOGEN; NICKEL; TUNGSTEN; URANIUM;

ARMY; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MICRONUCLEUS; OSTEOSARCOMA CELL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0036176094     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.suppl_1.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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