Dietary micronutrient deficiencies appear to mimic radiation and we wish to compare them to radiation. Our aim is to compare low dose radiation with micronutrient deficiency, and endogenous damage, by a variety of measures of DNA damage. We plan to use IMR90 human diploid fibroblast primary cells in some of the initial work, comparing micronutrient deficient and sufficient cells, and with varying levels of radiation.
Micronutrients prevent cancer and delay aging.
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