Facing the nuclear threat: Thyroid blocking revisited

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3511-3516

  Hänscheid, Heribert ^a   Reiners, Christoph ^a   Goulko, Guennadi ^a,b   Luster, Markus ^a,b   Schneider Ludorff, Marcus ^a   Buck, Andreas K ^a   Lassmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SODIUM PERCHLORATE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PLASMA HALF LIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THYROID GLAND;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCHLORIC ACID; POTASSIUM IODIDE; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 80655145181     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-1539     Document Type: Article

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