Environmental risk factors for osteoporosis.
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Environmental risk factors for osteoporosis.
The experiments aimed at evaluating the optimal parameters in the chemo-immunotherapeutic treatment of the L1210 lymphoid leukaemia grafted to [female BALB/c (H2d) x male DBA/2 (H2d)]Fl hybrid mice, hereafter referred to as CDF1 mice. In vitro irradiation of leukaemic ascites cells by X-or y-rays and subsequent inoculation in mice showed that optimum immunogenicity is radiation dose-dependent. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.94102390