Radioprotectors

SECTION I -- CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF RADIOPROTECTION -- Introduction /Edward A. Bump -- Chapter 1 -- History of Radioprotector Development /William O. Foye -- Chapter 2 -- The Mechanisms of Radiation Protection by Non-Protein Sulfhydryls: Glutathione, Cysteine, and Cysteamine /Cameron J. Koch -- Chapter 3 -- Aminothiols /David Murray -- Chapter 4 -- Stable Free Radicals as Radiation Protectors /Stephen M. Hahn, C. Murali Krishna, and James B. Mitchell -- Chapter 5 -- Radioprotection by Superoxide Dismutase /Radha M. Das -- Chapter 6 -- DNA-Binding Bibenzimidazoles as Radioprotectors /Roger F. Martin -- Chapter 7 -- Protection against Radiation Damage to DNA Bases /Ali Laayoun, Jean Lhomme, Maurice Berger, and Jean Cadet -- SECTION II -- BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF RADIOPROTECTION -- Introduction /William F. Blakely, Joseph F. Weiss, and Edward A. Bump -- Chapter 8 -- Eicosanoid-Induced Radioprotection and Chemoprotection: Laboratory Studies and Clinical Applications /Wayne R. Hanson -- Chapter 9 -- Immunomodulators and Cytokines: Their Use in the Mitigation of Radiation-Induced Hemopoietic Injury /Myra L. Patchen -- Chapter 10 -- Modulation of the Radiation Response by Cytokines /Ruth Neta -- Chapter 11 -- Radiation-Induced Apoptosis in Lymphoid Cells: Induction, Prevention, and Molecular Mechanisms /Narayani Ramakrishnan, John F. Kalinich, and David E. McClain -- Chapter 12 -- Modulation of Radiation-Induced Apoptosis /S. T. Palayoor, Ruth E. Langley, C. Norman Coleman, and Edward A. Bump -- Chapter 13 -- Chemoprevention with WR-2721 and Its Metabolites /Jeffrey S. Murley and David J. Grdina -- SECTION III RADIOPROTECTION OF NORMAL TISSUES -- Introduction /Elizabeth L. Travis -- Chapter 14 -- Protection against Radiation Damage to Vascular Tissues /Susan J. Braunhut -- Chapter 15 -- Radiation Protection in the Developing Central Nervous System: Investigation of a Biological Approach /Phyllis J. Mullenix -- Chapter 16 -- Clinical Experience with Radioprotectors /Kamal Malaker -- INDEX.