Effects of ionizing radiation on the antioxidant system of microscopic fungi with radioadaptive properties found in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Health Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-382

  Tugay, Tatyana I ^a   Zheltonozhskaya, Marina V ^b   Sadovnikov, Leonid V ^b   Tugay, Andrei V ^a   Farfán, Eduardo B ^c  

^a ZABOLOTNY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Ukraine)

^c SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

accidents, nuclear; antioxidant system; Chernobyl; microscopic fungi

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IONIZING RADIATION; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; UKRAINE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FUNGI; MELANINS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION, IONIZING; UKRAINE;

FUNGI;

EID: 80052511833     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181f56bf8     Document Type: Article

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