Radiation Health Risk Sciences

1. Global Strategic Center for Radiation Health Risk Control
Shunichi Yamashita

2. Discussion on Points of Radiation Safety and the Scope of The University of Tokyo Global COE Program
Toshiso Kosako, Takeshi Iimoto

3. Network System for Radiation Emergency Medicine in Japan and the Role of Hiroshima University
Kenji Kamiya

4. Non-DNA-Targeted Effects and Low-Dose Radiation Risk
Barry D. Michael

5. Update from the Chernobyl Tissue Bank: Effect of Latency on Different Types of Thyroid Cancer Post-Chernobyl
Gerry A. Thomas

6. Current Risk Estimate of Radiation-Related Cancer and Our Insight into the Future
Michiaki Kai, Nobuhiko Ban

7. Introduction of Atomic Bomb Disease Medical Research in Global COE Program
Kunihiro Tsukasaki, Masahiro Nakashima, Naoki Matsuda

8. The Offspring of Atomic Bomb Survivors: Cancer and Non-Cancer Mortality and Cancer Incidence
Akihiko Suyama, Shizue Izumi, Kojiro Koyama, Ritsu Sakata, Nobuo Nishi, Midori Soda, Eric J. Grant, Yukiko Shimizu, Kyoji Furukawa, Harry M., Fumiyoshi Kasagi, Kazunori Kodama

9. Ischemic Heart Disease Among Atomic Bomb Survivors: Possible Mechanism(s) Linking Ischemic Heart Disease and Radiation Exposure
Masazumi Akahoshi

10. Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma Incidence in the LSS Cohort: 1950–2001
Wan-Ling Hsu, Midori Soda, Nobuo Nishi, Dale Preston, Sachiyo Funamoto, Masao Tomonaga, Masako Iwanaga, Akihiko Suyama, Fumiyoshi Kasagi

11. Follow-Up Study of 78 Healthy Exposed Atomic Bomb Survivors for 35 Years in Hiroshima, with Special Reference to Multiple Cancers
Nanao Kamada

12. Research Activities and Projects Within a Framework of International Radiation Health Sciences Research
Noboru Takamura, Akira Ohtsuru, Hiroki Ozawa, Shunichi Yamashita

13. Age and Prognosis: Do Adjuvant Therapies Influence the Real Prognosis?
Robert C.F. Leonard, Mariko Morishita, Gerry A. Thomas

14. Mortality of the Chernobyl Emergency Workers: Analysis of Dose Response by Cohort Studies Covering Follow-Up Period of 1992–2006
Victor K. Ivanov, Sergey Yu Chekin, Valery V. Kashcheyev, Marat A. Maksioutov, Anatoly F. Tsyb

15. Twenty Years After Chernobyl: Implications for Radiation Health Risk Control
Yoshisada Shibata

16. Fallout Exposure of the Population and Thyroid Nodular Diseases
Zhaxybay Sh. Zhumadilov, Assem M. Orymbaeva

17. Higher-Order Chromatin Structure and Nontargeted Effects
Keiji Suzuki, Motohiro Yamauchi, Yasuyoshi Oka, Shunichi Yamashita

18. p53 Dependency of Delayed and Untargeted Recombination in Mouse Embryos Fertilized by Irradiated Sperm
Ohtsura Niwa

19. The Yin and Yang of Low-Dose Radiobiology
Tom K. Hei, Hongning Zhou, Vladimir N. Ivanov

20. Induction and Persistence of Cytogenetic Damage in Mouse Splenocytes Following Whole-Body X-Irradiation Analysed by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation. V. Heterogeneity/Chromosome Specificity
M. Prakash Hande, A.T. Natarajan

21. Molecular Understanding of RET/PTC-Mediated Thyroid Carcinogenesis
Young Suk Jo, Dong Wook Kim, Min Hee Lee, Soung Jung Kim, Jung Hwan Hwang, Minho Shong

22. Molecular Prediction of Therapeutic Response and Adverse Effect of Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
Yoshio Miki

23. Multiple Roles of NBS1 for Genotoxic and Nongenotoxic Stresses
Kenshi Komatsu, Mikio Shimada, Ken Tsuchida, Kyosuke Nakamura, Hiromi Yanagihara, Junya Kobayashi

24. The DNA Damage Response in Nontargeted Cells
Kevin M. Prise, Giuseppe Schettino, Susanne Burdak-Rothkamm

25. The Role of Telomere Dysfunction in Driving Genomic Instability
Susan M. Bailey, Eli S. Williams, Robert L. Ullrich

26. Secretory Clusterin Is a Marker of Tumor Progression Regulated by IGF-1 and Wnt Signaling Pathways
Yonglong Zou, Eva M. Goetz, Masatoshi Suzuki, David A. Boothman

27. Target of Radiation Carcinogenesis Is Protein: Becoming Triploid Is Proximate Cause of Cell Transformation
Masami Watanabe, Hanako Yoshii

28. Adult Stem Cells, the Barker Hypothesis, Epigenetic Events, and Low-Level Radiation Effects
James E. Trosko, Keiji Suzuki

29. Combined Effect of Ionizing Radiation and N-Ethyl-N-Nitrosourea on Mutation Induction and Lymphoma Development
Kazumi Yamauchi, Shizuko Kakinuma, Akifumi Nakata, Tatsuhiko Imaoka, Takashi Takabatake, Mayumi Nishimura, Yoshiya Shimada

30. ?-Ray-Induced Mouse Thymic Lymphomas: Bcl11b Inactivation and Prelymphoma Cells
Ryo Kominami, Hiroyuki Ohi, Kenya Kamimura, Masaki Maruyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Ken-ichi Takaku, Shin-ichi Morita, Rieka Go, Yukio Mishima

31. Framework of Radiation Safety Management in Japan: Laws, Administrative Agencies, and Supporting Associations
Naoki Matsuda, Masahiro Yoshida, Hideaki Takao, Miwa Miura

32. Background Radiation Dose to the Population Around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
Subramaniyan Selvasekarapandian, Jeyapandian Malathi, Gopalganapathi M. Brahmanandhan, David Khanna

33. International Cooperation in Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness: Establishment of a Medical Network in Asia
Makoto Akashi

34. Long-Term Biopsychosocial Consequences of Disaster: Focus on Atomic Bomb Survivors
Naotaka Shinfuku

35. Health Status of Children Exposed to the Chernobyl Accident In Utero: Observations in 1989–2003 and the Implications for Prioritizing Prophylactic Programs
Nataliya A. Korol, Yoshisada Shibata

36. Psychological Consequences More Than Half a Century After the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
Yuriko Suzuki, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Yoshiharu Kim

37. Significance of Oncogene Amplifications in Breast Cancer in Atomic Bomb Survivors: Associations with Radiation Exposure and Histological Grade
Shiro Miura, Masahiro Nakashima, Hisayoshi Kondo, Masahiro Ito, Serik Meirmanov, Tomayoshi Hayashi, Midori Soda, Ichiro Sekine

38. Paracrine Interactions Between Normal, but Not Cancer, Epithelial and Normal Mesenchymal Cells Attenuate Radiation-Induced DNA Damage
Vladimir A. Saenko, Yuka Nakazawa, Tatiana I. Rogounovitch, Keiji Suzuki, Norisato Mitsutake, Michiko Matsuse, Yasuyoshi Oka, Shunichi Yamashita

39. Thyroid Cancer in Ukraine After the Chernobyl Accident: Incidence, Pathology, Treatment, and Molecular Biology
Mykola Tronko, Tetyana Bogdanova, Ilya Likhtarev, Ihor Komisarenko, Andriy Kovalenko, Valentyn Markov, Valery Tereshchenko, Larysa Voskoboynyk, Lyudmyla Zurnadzhy, Victor Shpak, Lyudmyla Gulak, Rossella Elisei, Cristina Romei, Aldo Pinchera

40. Current Trends in Incidence and Mortality from Thyroid Cancer in Belarus
Pavel I. Bespalchuk, Yuri E. Demidchik, Eugene P. Demidchik, Vladimir A. Saenko, Shunichi Yamashita

41. The Health Status of the Population in the Semey Region and Scientifically Proven Measures to Improve It
Tolebay K. Rakhypbekov

42. Nuclear Explosions and Public Health Development
Aikan Akanov, Serik Meirmanov, Arslan Indershiev, Aigul Musahanova, Shunichi Yamashita

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