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Review: a major component of radiation action: interference with intracellular control of differentiation.
International journal of radiation biology - 1 Oct 1995
von Wangenheim K H, Peterson H P, Schwenke K
Abstract excerpt
If genetic lesions were the sole reason of damage induced by ionizing radiation, an increase in the number of identical chromosome sets (polyploidy) may be expected to have a radioprotective effect. This effect is evident in terminally differentiated tissues when the reduction in remaining life span is used as the criterion. This effect is also evident in cells capable of proliferation if cytoplasmic growth...
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