Radiation-induced lung damage: a challenge for radiation biology,experimental and clinical radiotherapy |
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| Authors: | Wolfgang Dorr Michael Baumann Thomas Herrmann |
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| Affiliation: | Klinik und Poliklinik fur Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie Medizinische Fakultat Carl Gustav Carus der Technischen Universitat, Fetscherstr. 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany. |
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| Abstract: | SummaryThe induction of pyrimidine dimers in E. coli DNA by secondary ultraviolet light associated with 6 MVp X-rays in the dose range 20–90 Gy has been demonstrated using T4 endonuclease V. Under the experimental conditions used in these experiments the major component of this secondary U.V. light is Cerenkov emission. |
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| Keywords: | pyrimidine dimers Cerenkov emission E. coli DNA |
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