Strategies for discovery of small molecule radiation protectors and radiation mitigators

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Greenberger, Joel S ^a   Clump, David ^a   Kagan, Valerian ^b   Bayir, Hülya ^c   Lazo, John S ^d   Wipf, Peter ^b   Li, Song ^b   Gao, Xiang ^b   Epperly, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Radiation mitigators; Radioprotectors; Small molecules

Indexed keywords

GS NITROXIDE; GS NOS 1; METALLOPORPHYRIN; NITROXIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN MDMX; PROTEIN P53; PUMA INHIBITOR; PUMA PROTEIN; RADIOPROTECTIVE AGENT; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 84880085839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2011.00059     Document Type: Article

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