Radiation-induced carcinogenesis: Studies using human epithelial cell lines

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 139-143

  Riches, A ^a   Herceg, Z ^a   Wang, H ^a   Bryant, P ^a   Armitage, M ^a   Gamble, S ^b   Arrand, J ^b   O'Reilly, S ^c   Seymour, C ^c   Mothersill, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Human cells; p53; Radiation induced transformation; Thyroid; Urothelium

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRRADIATION; KERATINOCYTE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; EXONS; GAMMA RAYS; GENES, P53; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LUNG; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; THYROID GLAND; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 12644298663     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1997)5:3<139::AID-ROI11>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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