Age, sex, and race influence single-strand break repair capacity in a human population

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1631-1641

  Trzeciak, Andrzej R ^a   Barnes, Janice ^a   Ejiogu, Ngozi ^a   Foster, Kamala ^a   Brant, Larry J ^a   Zonderman, Alan B ^a   Evans, Michele K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

irradiation; Biomonitoring study; Coefficient of variation; Comet assay; Cryopreserved lymphocytes; Dispersion coefficient H; DNA repair; Oxidative DNA damage; Reference standards; SSB repair capacity; SSB repair kinetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CELL KINETICS; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SMOKING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; COMET ASSAY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 56349098659     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.08.031     Document Type: Article

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