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Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 10-13 , January 2005

Novel use of zebrafish as a vertebrate model to screen radiation protectors and sensitizers

Presented at AACR 95th annual meeting.

Mary Frances McAleer, M.D., Ph.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
- Reprint requests to: Adam Paul Dicker, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Bodine Center for Cancer Treatment, 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Tel: (215) 955-6527; Fax: (215) 955-0412
Christian Davidson, B.S.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
William Robert Davidson, M.S.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Brad Yentzer, B.S.
- Department of Dermatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Steven A. Farber, Ph.D.
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Ulrich Rodeck, M.D.
- Department of Dermatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Adam P. Dicker, M.D., Ph.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Received 21 May 2004 ,Revised 8 September 2004 ,Accepted 10 September 2004.

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