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Estimating DNA repair by sequential evaluation of head and neck tumor radiation sensitivity using the comet assay.

Terris DJ, Ho EY, Ibrahim HZ, Dorie MJ, Kovacs MS, Le QT, Koong AC, Pinto HA, Brown JM. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002; 128 (6): 698-702

The alkaline comet assay is a microelectrophoretic technique for detecting single-strand DNA breaks, and may be used as an indirect measure of hypoxia by determining the radiation sensitivity of individual cells.

PubMedID: 12049567