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Effects of pre-exposure of mouse testis with low-dose 16O 8 ions or 60Co gamma -rays on sperm shape abnormalities, lipid peroxidation and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity induced by subsequent high-dose irradiation

H. ZHANG R. L. ZHENG Z. Q. WEI W. J. LI Q. X. GAO W. Q. CHEN Z. H. WANG J. HE J. P. LIANG G. W. HAN T. HUANG Q. LI H. M. XIE S. M. ZHANG X. C. CAI Department of Application of Heavy Ions, Institu te of Modern Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 31, Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 31 University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
Pages 163-167 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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