Fractionated, low-dose-rate ionizing radiation exposure and chronic ulcerative dermatitis in normal and Trp53 heterozygous C57BL/6 mice

Radiation Research

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 716-724

  Mitchel, R E J ^a,b   Burchart, P ^a   Wyatt, H ^a  

^a Atomic Energy of Canada   (Canada)

^b ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; IONIZING RADIATION; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RADIATION, IONIZING; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 38849204974     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1124.1     Document Type: Article

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