Suppression of thymic lymphoma induction by life-long low-dose-rate irradiation accompanied by immune activation in C57BL/6 mice

Radiation Research

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-158

  Ina, Yasuhiro ^a   Tanooka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Yamada, Takeshi ^a   Sakai, Kazuo ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD40 ANTIGEN; CESIUM 137;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAIR LOSS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SKIN INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS LYMPHOMA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X IRRADIATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; LYMPHOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 12844265986     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3289     Document Type: Article

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