Radiation damage to the lung: Mitigation by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors

Respirology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-71

  Medhora, Meetha ^a,b,c   Gao, Feng ^a   Jacobs, Elizabeth R ^b,c,d   Moulder, John E ^a  

^a Departments of Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^b Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

captopril; lung fibrosis; nuclear accident; radiation pneumonitis; radiological terrorism

Indexed keywords

1 [3 (ACETYLTHIO) 3 BENZOYL 2 METHYLPROPIONYL]PROLINE; CAPTOPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOSARTAN; PENTOPRIL;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKE; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY INJURY; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PLEURA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED LUNG INJURY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; TACHYPNEA;

ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS;

EID: 84255176558     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02092.x     Document Type: Review

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