First steps towards systems radiation biology studies concerned with DNA and chromosome structure within living cells

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-61

  Friedland, Werner ^a   Paretzke, Herwig G ^a   Ballarini, Francesca ^b   Ottolenghi, Andrea ^b   Kreth, Gregor ^c   Cremer, Christoph ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MACROMOLECULES; CHROMATIN; LIVING CELLS; RADIATION BIOLOGY;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

BIOPHYSICS;

CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOBIOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 39049115468     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-007-0152-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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