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3rd International Congress of of Nuclear Medicine & & 15th 15th Iranian Annual Annual Congress of<br />

Congress of Nuclear Medicine<br />

Shahid Beheshti Shahid Beheshti University University of Medical of Medical Sciences Sciences 19-21 19-21 May May 2011<br />

Radioprotective agents prevent genotoxicity induced by<br />

ionizing radiation in nuclear medicine practice<br />

Seyed Jalal Hosseinimehr<br />

Department of Radiopharmacy<br />

Ionizing radiation passing through living tissues induces damage,<br />

these damage are caused directly or indirectly with producing free<br />

radicals and toxic agents. Interaction of free radicals with critical<br />

macromolecules such as DNA is leading to genotoxicity and then<br />

mutation and carcinogenesis. In nuclear medicine practice, personnel<br />

and patients expose to ionizing radiation through radiopharmaceutical<br />

preparation and administration. Although, gamma irradiation<br />

produced by radiopharmaceuticals is not high level, it can induce<br />

genotoxicity. There are several compounds were evaluated for<br />

protection against genotoxicity induced by external or internal<br />

irradiation on culture human lymphocytes in our laboratory. These<br />

compounds are mainly natural origin products. Radioprotective<br />

effects of Hawthorn, Zataria extracts and hesperidin were<br />

investigated against genotoxicity induced by external gamma<br />

irradiation in vitro cultured human lymphocytes, they have good<br />

radioprotection. In other study, we showed that hesperidin protected<br />

significantly, DNA damage induced by gamma irradiation produced by<br />

99mT-MIBI in lymphocytes. These results showed that natural<br />

products could be candidate as radioprotective agents in internal and<br />

external genotoxicity induced by ionizing radiation.<br />

Keywords: Radioprotective, natural product, gamma iradiation,<br />

genotoxicity<br />

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