Micronuclei in lymphocytes from currently active uranium miners

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 277-282

  Zölzer, Friedo ^a   Hon, Zdeněk ^a,b   Skalická, Zuzana Freitinger ^a   Havránková, Renata ^a   Navrátil, Leoš ^a,b,c   Rosina, Jozef ^a,b   Škopek, Jiří ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Age; Alpha radiation; Biodosimetry; Centromere labelling; Dose; Radon

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALPHA RADIATION; BIODOSIMETRY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DOSE; EUROPEAN UNION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MICRONUCLEUS FREQUENCIES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOTAL DOSE;

MINERS; RADON; URANIUM MINES;

CHROMOSOMES;

URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CZECH REPUBLIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CENTROMERE; CZECH REPUBLIC; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; URANIUM;

EID: 84864434371     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0422-0     Document Type: Article

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