Additional Papers on Depleted Uranium from 2009 - 2011 ICBUW Science Team
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Alexandra C. Miller et al., Preconceptional Paternal Exposure to Depleted Uranium: Transmission of Genetic Damage to Offspring, Health Physics 99(3), 371-379, 2010 (September) Male transgenic mice with embedded DU pellets were exposed to low (2 DU pellets), medium (4 DU pellets) and high (6 DU pellets) doses of DU over a period of 7 months. They were mated to nontransgenic female mice at 7 months post implantation. The offspring of the mice where the male parent had been exposed to medium or high doses of DU had a significant increase in mutation frequency in the bone marrow as compared to control offspring.
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