Prediction of Radiosensitivity by Measurement of X-ray-induced Apoptosis in Human Blood using the Comet Assay

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5 A, 2003, Pages 3847-3854

  Kizilian Martel, N ^a   Wilkins, R C ^a   McLean, J R N ^a   Malone, S ^b   Raaphorst, G P ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Comet assay; Human blood; Predictive assay; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; THYROID CARCINOMA; TONSIL CARCINOMA; VENOUS BLOOD; X IRRADIATION;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD; COMET ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; X-RAYS;

EID: 0345305276     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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