Endothelial perturbations and therapeutic strategies in normal tissue radiation damage

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Korpela, Elina ^a,b   Liu, Stanley K ^a,b,c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute radiation toxicity; Cell death; Endothelial cell; Inflammation; Microvasculature; Radioprotection; Radiotherapy; Senescence

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOKINE; RADIOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROTECTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRRADIATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; SENESCENCE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULITIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84924177093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-014-0266-7     Document Type: Article

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