The Potential Impact of Bystander Effects on Radiation Risks in a Mars Mission

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Intercellular Communication Is Involved in the Bystander Regulation of Gene Expression in Human Cells Exposed to Very Low Fluences of Alpha Particles

1998 • 509 citations

Induction of a bystander mutagenic effect of alpha particles in mammalian cells

2000 • 473 citations

Alpha particles initiate biological production of superoxide anions and hydrogen peroxide in human cells.

1997 • 445 citations

Cell-Cell Contact during Gamma Irradiation Is Not Required to Induce a Bystander Effect in Normal Human Keratinocytes: Evidence for Release during Irradiation of a Signal Controlling Survival into the Medium

1998 • 423 citations

Studies of bystander effects in human fibroblasts using a charged particle microbeam

1998 • 410 citations

Factors underlying the cell growth-related bystander responses to alpha particles.

2000 • 346 citations

The Bystander Effect in Radiation Oncogenesis: I. Transformation in C3H 10T½ CellsIn Vitrocan be Initiated in the Unirradiated Neighbors of Irradiated Cells

2001 • 308 citations

Chromosomal instability in the descendants of unirradiated surviving cells after α-particle irradiation

1998 • 303 citations

Alpha-Particle-Induced Sister Chromatid Exchange in Normal Human Lung Fibroblasts: Evidence for an Extranuclear Target

1996 • 286 citations

Unexpected Sensitivity to the Induction of Mutations by Very Low Doses of Alpha-Particle Radiation: Evidence for a Bystander Effect

1999 • 265 citations

Extracellular factor(s) following exposure to alpha particles can cause sister chromatid exchanges in normal human cells.

1997 • 264 citations

The analysis of several 2× 2 contingency tables

1971 • 260 citations

Relative Contribution of Bystander and Targeted Cell Killing to the Low-Dose Region of the Radiation Dose–Response Curve

2000 • 256 citations

The Bystander Effect in Radiation Oncogenesis: II. A Quantitative Model

2001 • 216 citations

Irradiation of Parts of Individual Cells

1953 • 199 citations

The Columbia University Single-Ion Microbeam

2001 • 199 citations

Alpha Particles Induce the Production of Interleukin-8 by Human Cells

1999 • 188 citations

The oncogenic transforming potential of the passage of single α particles through mammalian cell nuclei

1999 • 173 citations

Delayed expression of lethal mutations and genomic instability in the progeny of human epithelial cells that survived in a bystander-killing environment

1997 • 166 citations

Alpha-particle-induced p53 protein expression in a rat lung epithelial cell strain.

1994 • 161 citations

Radon-Exposed Underground Miners and Inverse Dose-Rate (protraction Enhancement) Effects

1995 • 147 citations

Adaptive Response and the Bystander Effect Induced by Radiation in C3H 10T½ Cells in Culture

2001 • 146 citations

The How and Why of in Vitro Oncogenic Transformation

1981 • 46 citations

The Effects of the Temporal Distribution of Dose on Oncogenic Transformation by Neutrons and Charged Particles of Intermediate LET

1990 • 32 citations

The Significance of Dose Rate in Assessing the Hazards of Domestic Radon Exposure

1994 • 32 citations

A New Mechanism for DNA Alterations Induced by Alpha Particles Such as Those Emitted by Radon and Radon Progeny

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The performance of the Gray Laboratory charged-particle microbeam

2000 • 8 citations

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop: Microbeam Probes of Cellular Radiation Response¹Killiney Bay, Dublin, Ireland, July 17–18, 1999

2000 • 8 citations

Protraction effects in radiation studies: basic biophysics.

2000 • 3 citations