1. United Nations Environment Program (1988) Radiation: doses, effects, risks. Blackwell, Oxford, pp 65–84
2. Cotran RS, Kumar V, Collins T (eds) (1999) In: Robbins pathologic basis of disease, 5th edn. Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 50–88
3. Prasad KN (1995) Handbook of radiobiology, 2nd edn. CRC Press, Boca Raton
4. Azzam EI, de Toledo SM, Little JB (2001) Direct evidence for the participation of gap junction-mediated intercellular communication in the transmission of damage signals from alpha-particle irradiated to nonirradiated cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:473–478
5. Ramesh R, Marrogi AJ, Munshi A, Abboud CN, Freeman SM (1996) In vivo analysis of the ‘bystander effect’: a cytokine cascade. Exp Hematol 24:829–838