Publication Date:
1979-10-26
Description:
In experiments designed to measure human cell survival sith +/- 2 percent accuracy it was found that low doses (21 to 87 rad) of gamma-rays inactivated the colony-forming ability of cultured human cells with a probability of 0.00226 +/- 0.00012 per rad. There appears to be no threshold for the lethality of radiation to human cells in vitro.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Furcinitti, P S -- Todd, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Oct 26;206(4417):475-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/504991" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cell Division/radiation effects
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Cell Survival/*radiation effects
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Cells, Cultured/radiation effects
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Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
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*Gamma Rays
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Humans
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*Radiation, Ionizing
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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