Mitochondrial DNA damage in the hair bulb: can it be used as a non-invasive biomarker of local exposure to low LET ionizing radiation?

Conclusions: Our results suggest that the unspecified lesion frequency and proportion of large deletions of mtDNA in hair bulbs are not suitable biomarkers of exposure to ionizing radiation. PMID: 31846382 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Radiation Biology - Category: Radiology Tags: Int J Radiat Biol Source Type: research