Reduction of spontaneous somatic mutation frequency by a low-dose x irradiation of drosophila larvae and possible involvement of DNA single-strand damage repair

Radiation Research

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-271

  Koana, Takao ^a,b   Takahashi, Takashi ^b   Tsujimura, Hidenobu ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE FREQUENCY; LARVA; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; P35 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SOMATIC MUTATION; VIRUS GENE; X RAY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PUNCTUM MINUTISSIMUM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; WING; X-RAYS;

EID: 84859934193     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2630.1     Document Type: Article

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