Biodosimetry using chromosome aberrations in human lymphocytes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-245

  Senthamizhchelvan, S ^a   Pant, G S ^a   Rath, G K ^a   Julka, P K ^a   Nair, O ^a   Joshi, R C ^a   Malhotra, A ^a   Pandey, R M ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION MONITORING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34547131577     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl109     Document Type: Article

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