H2AX in DNA damage response

Current Cancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages 3-33

  Redon, Christophe E ^b   Dickey, Jennifer S ^b   Nakamura, Asako J ^b   Martin, Olga A ^b   Bonner, William M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

H2AX foci; Cancer; Clinical applications; Double strand break repair; Environmental toxins; Ionizing radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CLOFARABINE; COHESIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; HISTONE H2AX; TIPIFAMID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOSIMETRY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE INFERTILITY; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STOICHIOMETRY; TELOMERE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84870677404     PISSN: 09400745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8044-1_1     Document Type: Article

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