Related Experiment Videos
Hair medullary cell counts: a simple and sensitive indicator of radiation exposure
1Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital, Manchester, U.K.
International Journal of Radiation Biology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The medulla in the lower regions of a growing mouse hair contains a very regularly spaced column of cell nuclei. The total number of nuclei 3 days after irradiation in this column (from its lower recognition point to the point of terminal differentiation and nuclear degradation) proves to be a sensitive indicator of the level of radiation exposure.