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Measuring DNA Damage and Repair in Mouse Splenocytes After Chronic In Vivo Exposure to Very Low Doses of Beta- and Gamma-Radiation
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Measuring DNA Damage and Repair in Mouse Splenocytes After Chronic In Vivo Exposure to Very Low Doses of Beta- and Gamma-Radiation

Published on: July 4, 2015

The level of induced DNA double-strand breakage correlates with cell killing after X-irradiation

I R Radford

    International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine
    |July 1, 1985
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