Panel Disdussion
Panel Disdussion
Panel Disdussion
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
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 />
181