Human fetuses do not register chromosome damage inflicted by radiation exposure in lymphoid precursor cells except for a small but significant effect at low doses

Radiation Research

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-379

  Ohtaki, K ^a   Kodama, Y ^a   Nakano, M ^a   Itoh, M ^a   Awa, A A ^a   Cologne, J ^a   Nakamura, N ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER RISK; CELL KILLING; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FETUS; HIGH DOSE RADIATION; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID PRECURSOR CELL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL; X RAY; ATOMIC WARFARE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; JAPAN; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X-RAYS;

EID: 2442550632     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/3147     Document Type: Article

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