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Contents

Volume 258 (1991)

S p e c i a l I s s u e

Ionizing Radiation and Genetic Risks

by K. Sankaranarayanan

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Editorial Introduction F.H. Sobels (The Netherlands)

Reviews Ionizing radiation and genetic risks.

!. Epidemiological, population genetic, biochemical and molecular aspects of Mendelian diseases K. Sankaranarayanan (The Netherlands)

Ionizing radiation and genetic risks. !1. Nature of radiation-induced mutations in experimental mammalian in vivo systems K. Sankaranarayanan (The Netherlands)

Ionizing radiation and genetic risks. III. Nature of spontaneous and radiation-induced mutations in mammalian in vitro systems and mechanisms of induction of mutations by radiation K. Sankaranarayanan (The Netherlands)

Ionizing radiation and genetic risks. IV. Current methods, estimates of risk of Mendelian disease, human data and lessons from biochemical and molecular studies of mutations K. Sankaranarayanan (The Netherlands)

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The genetic toxicology of acridines L.R. Ferguson and W.A. Denny (New Zealand)

The genetic toxicology of 5-bromodeoxyuridine in mammalian cells S.M. Morris (U.S.A.)

Editorial F.H. Sobels (The Netherlands)

Reviews Biological low-dose radiation effects

P. Oftedal (Norway) The genetic toxicology of ortho-toluidine

N. Danford (U.K.) The detection of chemically induced chromosomal malsegregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M: a literature

survey (1984-1990) S. Albertini and F.K. Zimmermann (Switzerland, F.R.G.)

Considerations in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's testing approach for mutagenicity K.L. Dearfield, A.E. Auletta, M.C. Cimino and M.M. Moore (U.S.A.)

Genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic hazards in the marine environment, with special reference to the Mediter- ranean Sea S. De Flora, M. Bagnasco and P. Zanacchi (Italy)

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