Intense THz pulses cause H2AX phosphorylation and activate DNA damage response in human skin tissue

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 559-568

  Titova, Lyubov V ^a   Ayesheshim, Ayesheshim K ^a   Golubov, Andrey ^b   Fogen, Dawson ^b   Rodriguez Juarez, Rocio ^b   Hegmann, Frank A ^a   Kovalchuk, Olga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOSPHORYLATION; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE; HEALTH CONSEQUENCES; NOVEL DIAGNOSTICS; PICOSECOND DURATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

HISTONE H2AX; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P27; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATINOCYTE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SKIN; STRATUM CORNEUM; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84875749925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.000559     Document Type: Article

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