Cancer risks attributable to low doses of ionizing radiation: assessing what we really know

…, DL Preston, RJ Preston, JS Puskin… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
High doses of ionizing radiation clearly produce deleterious consequences in humans,
including, but not exclusively, cancer induction. At very low radiation doses the situation is much …

The US Environmental Protection Agency's assessment of risks from indoor radon

DJ Pawel, JS Puskin - Health physics, 2004 - journals.lww.com
The US Environmental Protection Agency has updated its assessment of health risks from
indoor radon, which has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer after …

Evidence for more than one C2+ion transport mechanism in mitochondria

JS Puskin, TE Gunter, KK Gunter, PR Russell - Biochemistry, 1976 - ACS Publications
Jerome S. Puskin,* Thomas E. Gunter, Karlene K. Gunter, and Phyllis R. Russell abstract;
The active transport and internal binding of the Ca2+ analogueMn2+ by rat liver mitochondria …

Smoking as a confounder in ecologic correlations of cancer mortality rates with average county radon levels

JS Puskin - Health physics, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Cohen has reported a negative correlation between lung cancer mortality and average radon
levels by county. In this paper, the correlation of US county mortality rates for various types …

Perspective on the use of LNT for radiation protection and risk assessment by the US Environmental Protection Agency

JS Puskin - Dose-Response, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bases its risk assessments, regulatory limits,
and nonregulatory guidelines for population exposures to low level ionizing radiation on …

Divalent cation binding to phospholipids: an EPR study

JS Puskin - The Journal of Membrane Biology, 1977 - Springer
Divalent cation association to sonicated phospholipid liposomes has been examined with
electron paramagnetic spectroscopy. Spectra were obtained suggesting that, in some cases, …

Radon exposure assessment and dosimetry applied to epidemiology and risk estimation

JS Puskin, AC James - Radiation research, 2006 - meridian.allenpress.com
Puskin; … PuskinPuskin, JS and James, AC Radon Exposure Assessment and
Dosimetry Applied to Epidemiology and Risk Estimation. Radiat. Res. …

[PDF][PDF] Manganous ion as a spin label in studies of mitochondrial uptake of manganese

TE Gunter, JS Puskin - Biophysical Journal, 1972 - cell.com
Manganous ion (Mn 2+ ) has been used as a spin label for studies of divalent cation uptake
by rat liver mitochondria. Spin exchange, observed in the electron paramagnetic resonance (…

Mechanism of sodium ion independent calcium ion efflux from rat liver mitochondria

TE Gunter, JH Chace, JS Puskin, KK Gunter - Biochemistry, 1983 - ACS Publications
TE Gunter,** JH Chace, JS Puskin, 2 and KK Gunter abstract: On the basis of primarily two
types of observations, it has been suggested that the Na+-independent Ca2+ efflux …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative magnetic resonance studies of manganese uptake by mitochondria

RE Gunter, JS Puskin, PR Russell - Biophysical Journal, 1975 - cell.com
The uptake of the paramagnetic ion manganese by rat liver mitochondria is studied by
electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Emphasis is placed on: (a) obtaining …