Non-targeted radiation effects-An epigenetic connection

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 714, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 113-125

  Ilnytskyy, Yaroslav ^a   Kovalchuk, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bystander effects; DNA methylation; Epigenetic changes; Radiation; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80051803480     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.06.014     Document Type: Review

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