Full-color painting reveals an excess of radiation-induced dicentrics involving homologous chromosomes

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 613-620

  Plan, Y ^a   Hlatky, L ^b   Hahnfeldt, P ^b   Sachs, R ^a   Loucas, B ^c   Cornforth, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicentric chromosome aberrations; DNA repair; Homologous repair; Proximity dependent DNA misrepair

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 28944450415     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000500331881     Document Type: Article

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