Sentence examples for radiation protectors from inspiring English sources

Humans, however, do not tolerate the doses of cysteine and cysteamine, which would be required for analogous protection, and the early hope that these compounds might be useful as radiation protectors (RPs) has not been realized.

It has already been reported that the stable nitroxyl radical Tempol and other analogues represent a new class of non-thiol-containing radiation protectors that may be useful in elucidating the mechanisms of radiation-induced cellular damage and may have broad applications in protecting against oxidative stress.

Since the overwhelming majority of fungi, melanized or not, can withstand doses up to 1.7×104 Gy [9], there is no apparent requirement for melanin as a radiation protector.

Therefore, it remains unclear whether or not curcumin indeed acts as a radiation protector.

Due to its antioxidative activity, curcumin has been proposed as a radiation protector.

Therefore, we evaluated the protective effect of curcumin against ionizing radiation using D. melanogaster and found that curcumin may be effective as a radiation protector.

Our group has identified flaxseed and its bioactive lignan component as potent protectors against radiation-induced lung toxicity when given prior to radiation exposure [ 11].

The eye protector reduced the radiation dose by up to 62.1% at the eye lens.

The eye protector placed within the radiation field of view was able to reduce the radiation dose to the eye lens by direct radiation beam of the lateral x-ray tube with minimal effect on the ADRC system.

Radiation countermeasures fall into three broad classes: protectors, mitigators and therapeutics.

In this study, an eye lens protector was designed and fabricated to reduce the radiation dose to the patients' eye lens during neuro-interventional procedures.