Radiation-hypersensitive cancer patients do not manifest protein expression abnormalities in components of the nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1251-1255

  Leong, T ^a   Chao, M ^a   Bassal, S ^a   McKay, M ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer radiotherapy; DNA double strand breaks; NHEJ; Radiation sensitivity

Indexed keywords

POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NHEJ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIATION USE EFFICIENCY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

COHORT STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0038147087     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600897     Document Type: Article

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