| Description |
1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface page; Contributors; Radiation Toxicology: Bone marrow and leukaemia; Haemopoiesis; Human Radiation Exposure: Sources and levels; Response of Bone Marrow to Low LET Irradiation; Effects of High LET Irradiation on Haemopoiesis; Experimental Approaches for Therapeutic Treatment of Radiation-induced Haemopoietic Injury; Clinical Approaches to Treatment of Radiation-induced Haemopoietic Injury; The Pathogenesis of Leukaemia; Genetic Effects of Ionising Radiation with respect to Leukaemia; Experimental Radiation Leukaemogenesis |
| Summary |
This text covers every injury to the bone marrow which can occur from low and high doses of ionising radiation - for example, X-rays, gamma-rays and especially damaging types of radiation such as alpha-rays |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Radiation -- Toxicology.
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Bone marrow -- Effect of radiation on
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Leukemia, Radiation-induced.
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Bone marrow -- Effect of radiation on
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Leukemia, Radiation-induced
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Radiation -- Toxicology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lord, Brian I
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| ISBN |
9780203482704 |
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0203482700 |
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