CHROMOSOME-ABERRATIONS IN HUMAN-LYMPHOCYTES APPARENTLY INDUCED BY CHERNOBYL FALLOUT

Authors
SCHEID W WEBER J PETRENKO S TRAUT H
Citation
W. Scheid et al., CHROMOSOME-ABERRATIONS IN HUMAN-LYMPHOCYTES APPARENTLY INDUCED BY CHERNOBYL FALLOUT, Health physics, 64(5), 1993, pp. 531-534
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Health physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00179078
Volume
64
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
531 - 534
Database
ISI
SICI code
0017-9078(1993)64:5<531:CIHAIB>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Sixteen people (15 from Byelorussia, one from Kiev) possibly exposed t o radioactivity released by the Chernobyl accident were investigated f or chromosome aberrations induced in lymphocytes. Statistically signif icant increases of the yield of dicentric chromosomes were observed in five people.