β-pseudouridine, a beer component, reduces radiation-induced chromosome aberrations in human lymphocytes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 538, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 93-99

  Monobe, Manami ^a,b   Arimoto Kobayashi, Sakae ^c   Ando, Koichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beer; Carbon ions; Chromosome aberration; X rays; Pseudouridine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA PSEUDOURIDINE; CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BEER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL ASSAY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; X RAY;

EID: 0037756730     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(03)00094-9     Document Type: Article

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