The use of IL-2 cultures to measure chromosomal radiosensitivity in breast cancer patients

Mutagenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 493-498

  Baeyens, A ^a   Vandenbulcke, K ^a   Philippe J ^b   Thierens, H ^a   De Ridder, L ^a   Vral, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BLOOD CELLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL CYCLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 10044232996     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geh063     Document Type: Article

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