Gamma radiation interacts with melanin to alter its oxidation-reduction potential and results in electric current production

Bioelectrochemistry

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-73

  Turick, Charles E ^a   Ekechukwu, Amy A ^a   Milliken, Charles E ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^b   Dadachova, Ekaterina ^b  

^a SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Current production; Gamma radiation; Melanin; Radioprotection

Indexed keywords

CHRONOPOTENTIOMETRY; CURRENT PRODUCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ENHANCED GROWTH; MELANIN; MELANIN PIGMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION POTENTIALS; RADIOPROTECTION; REDOX CYCLING; REDUCTANTS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IONIZING RADIATION; OXIDATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; RADIOACTIVITY; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION;

GAMMA RAYS;

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; CHRONOPOTENTIOMETRY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GAMMA RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; MELANINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 80051823712     PISSN: 15675394     EISSN: 1878562X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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