Protection against prenatal irradiation-induced genomic instability and its consequences in adult mice by Ocimum flavonoids, orientin and vicenin

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 653-662

  Uma Devi, P ^a   Satyamitra, M ^a,b  

^a Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital & Research Centre Bhopal   (India)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; FLAVONOID; ORIENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VICENIN;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASIL; BONE MARROW CELL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT S; COLONY FORMING UNIT S1; COLONY FORMING UNIT S2; COLONY FORMING UNIT S3; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; APIGENIN; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; GAMMA RAYS; GLUCOSIDES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCIMUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM;

EID: 7944223999     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000400005494     Document Type: Article

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