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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2017 Apr 24;187(6):732–742. doi: 10.1667/RR14725.1

FIG. 3.

FIG. 3

Protective wounding results in decreased 30-day mortality of female C57BL/6 mice over a range of radiation doses. Mortality Curves are shown for sham-cut mice or mice that received a subcutaneous incision (3, 6 or 12 mm in length) within 20 min postirradiation with various doses of X rays. Groups consisted of 10–21 mice per experimental group and experiments were repeated 2–5 times. Using the Mantel-Haenzel method on 30-day survival data, a significant difference between sham cut and cut groups was found at all radiation doses except 6.0 Gy, P = 0.15. For 6.2 Gy, P < 0.0001; 6.5 Gy, P = 0.0219; 6.7 Gy, P = 0.0199; 6.8 Gy, P < 0.0001, 7.1 Gy, P = 0.0017.