Effect of occupational radiation exposures on chromosome aberration rates in former plutonium workers

Radiation Research

Volumn 166, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 89-97

  Livingston, Gordon K ^a   Falk, Roger B ^b   Schmid, Ernst ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745913313     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3586.1     Document Type: Article

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