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Radiation Skin Reaction and Depletion and Restoration of Body Immune Response

Nature volume 198, pages 1216–1217 (1963)Cite this article

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OBSERVATIONS leading to the reconsideration of the skin radiation reaction in which it is shown immunological phenomena play a part were made in the course of experimental work on isolation of biologically active diffusible factors in irradiated tissues1,2. Jolles et al.3 found a vital dye useful in this work as an indicator of the optimum time of collection of skin perfusates.

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JOLLES, B., HARRISON, R. Radiation Skin Reaction and Depletion and Restoration of Body Immune Response. Nature 198, 1216–1217 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981216a0

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