No Significant Endothelial Apoptosis in the Radiation-Induced Gastrointestinal Syndrome

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 205-210

  Schuller, Bradley W ^a   Rogers, Arlin B ^b   Cormier, Kathleen S ^b   Riley, Kent J ^b   Binns, Peter J ^b   Julius, Richard ^c   Hawthorne, M Frederick ^c   Coderre, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Gastrointestinal syndrome; Mouse intestine; Selective vascular irradiation; Vascular endothelium

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL DEATH; FLUORESCENCE; LIPOSOMES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NEUTRONS; PROTEINS; RATS;

BIOTIN; EPITHERMAL NEUTRONS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYNDROME; LEUKOCYTES; MOUSE INTESTINE; SELECTIVE VASCULAR IRRADIATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

CESIUM 137; LIPOSOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE VILLUS; JEJUNUM; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SMALL INTESTINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BORON; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTESTINE, SMALL; ISOTOPES; JEJUNUM; LIPOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUTRONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; SYNDROME; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34247176671     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.069     Document Type: Article

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