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Cancer risk in space due to radiation assessed by determining cell lethality and mutation frequencies of prokaryotes and a plasmid during the Second International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) Space Shuttle experiment.
Oncology reports - 1 Jan 2000
Harada K, Obiya Y, Nakano T, Kawashima M, Miki T, Kobayashi Y, Watanabe H, Okaichi K, Ohnishi T, Mukai C, Nagaoka S
Abstract excerpt
We participated in a space experiment conducted during the 2nd International Microgravity Laboratory Mission (IML-2) project. The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of space radiation, i.e., high-LET (linear energy transfer) cosmic radiation, on living organisms in the 'Realtime Radiation Monitoring Device (RRMD)'. The biological samples, dried E. coli DNA repair-deficient mutant cells and shuttle...
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