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Radiation-Protective Agents

"Radiation-Protective Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Drugs used to protect against ionizing radiation. They are usually of interest for use in radiation therapy but have been considered for other, e.g. military, purposes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Radiation-Protective Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Radiation-Protective Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 47 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2002
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