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This chapter reviews the general effects of ionizing radiation at the cellular level, radiobiological reactions in the skin, and many of the specific changes induced by ionizing radiation in the various cellular components of the skin. The principal features of radioprotection and radiosensitization, as well as some specific agents that induce these efffects, are discussed. The investigative use of proliferative and nonproliferative hair cell populations as biological indicator systems to help elucidate the more universal cellular efffects of radiation alone, or combined with certain pharmacologic, physical, or biological agents, is stressed. |
