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Small Molecule Drug Prevents Lethal Radiation Sickness

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Small Molecule Drug Prevents Lethal Radiation Sickness

video: This is an animation describing the radiation drug's effects on mice. This animation relates to a paper that appeared in the May 14, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. C.M. Taniguchi at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "PHD Inhibition Mitigates and Protects Against Radiation-Induced Gastrointestinal Toxicity via HIF2." view more 

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