Effective cross sections for production of single-strand breaks in plasmid DNA by 0.1 to 4.7 eV electrons

Radiation Research

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 452-459

  Panajotovic, Radmila ^a   Martin, Frédéric ^a   Cloutier, Pierre ^a   Hunting, Darel ^a   Sanche, Léon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLASMIDS; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 33645465675     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3521.1     Document Type: Article

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