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Science 26 October 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4417, pp. 475 - 477
DOI: 10.1126/science.504991
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Science, Vol 206, Issue 4417, 475-477
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Gamma rays: further evidence for lack of a threshold dose for lethality to human cells

PS Furcinitti and P Todd

In experiments designed to measure human cell survival sith +/- 2 percent accuracy it was found that low doses (21 to 87 rad) of gamma-rays inactivated the colony-forming ability of cultured human cells with a probability of 0.00226 +/- 0.00012 per rad. There appears to be no threshold for the lethality of radiation to human cells in vitro.


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