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Nature 195, 1012 (08 September 1962); doi:10.1038/1951012a0

Complex Amine Oxides with Radioprotectant Properties

THOMAS J. HALEY, A. M. FLESHER & L. MAVIS

Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, Department of Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.

PREVIOUS reports1–3 have shown that certain amine oxides can increase total survival after lethal whole-body X-irradiation. Recently it was found that the complex compounds in Table 1 were active radioprotectants.

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