Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 102-109 , January 2010

Glycolytic metabolism and tumour response to fractionated irradiation

  • Ulrike G.A. Sattler

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
    • Shared first authorship.
  • ,
  • Sandra S. Meyer

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
    • Shared first authorship.
  • ,
  • Verena Quennet

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
    • Present address: Radiation Biology and DNA Repair, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • ,
  • Christian Hoerner

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  • ,
  • Hannah Knoerzer

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  • ,
  • Christian Fabian

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  • ,
  • Ala Yaromina

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology
  • ,
  • Daniel Zips

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology
  • ,
  • Stefan Walenta

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  • ,
  • Michael Baumann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology
    • Experimental Centre and
    • OncoRay-Centre for Radiation Research in Oncology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  • ,
  • Wolfgang Mueller-Klieser

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

Received 26 June 2009 ,Revised 18 September 2009 ,Accepted 4 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.11.007

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 94, Issue 1 , Pages 102-109 , January 2010