Effect of low-dose total-body irradiation on transplantability of tumor cells in syngeneic mice

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-201

  Ito, Masato ^a   Shibamoto, Yuta ^a   Ayakawa, Shiho ^a   Tomita, Natsuo ^a   Sugie, Chikao ^a   Ogino, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low dose radiation; Total body irradiation; Tumor transplantability

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; IRRADIATION; MAMMALS;

BALB/C MICE; CELL LINES; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; LOW DOSE; LOW DOSE RADIATION; PRE-TREATMENTS; TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION; TUMOR TRANSPLANTABILITY; TUMOUR CELLS;

TUMORS;

MUS;

EID: 41549155981     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.07094     Document Type: Article

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