Effect of low-level radiation on the death of male germ cells

Radiation Research

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 379-389

  Liu, Guangwei ^a   Gong, Pingsheng ^a   Zhao, Hongguang ^a   Wang, Zhicheng ^a   Gong, Shouliang ^a,c   Cai, Lu ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERM CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MALE; MICE; RADIATION DOSAGE; SPERMATOZOA; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645464431     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3528.1     Document Type: Article

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