The relative biological effectiveness of low doses of 14 MeV neutrons in steady-state murine spermatogenesis as determined by flow cytometry

Radiation Research

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 734-742

  Hacker Klom, U B ^a,b   Kohnlein W ^a   Kronholz, H L ^b   Gohde W ^a  

^a Institute of Radiation Biology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0343091462     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2000)153[0734:TRBEOL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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