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EBERT et al. showed that nitrogen and noble gases have a radioprotective effect in experiments on bean seedlings when under pressure. They consider this effect to result from the adsorption displacement of oxygen from radiosensitive cell structures1–3. This hypothesis has, however, been criticized by other workers4–9. Another mechanism is probably involved in the protective effect of compressed gases. Protection may be caused by inhibition of the diffusion oxygen which penetrates radiosensitive meristemal cells by way of the intracellular gas spaces6–9.
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PARIBOK, V., KALNEY, V. Comparative Radioprotective Effectiveness of Compressed Gases. Nature 211, 1428–1429 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111428a0
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