Open Access56Fe irradiation-induced cognitive deficits through oxidative stress in mice
Author(s) -
Jiawei Yan,
Liu Yang,
Qiuyue Zhao,
Jie Li,
Aihong Mao,
Hongyan Li,
Cuixia Di,
Hong Zhang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
toxicology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2045-4538
pISSN - 2045-452X
DOI - 10.1039/c6tx00282j
Subject(s) - oxidative stress , irradiation , cognition , cognitive impairment , ion , chemistry , radiochemistry , psychology , biochemistry , neuroscience , physics , nuclear physics , organic chemistry
We investigated the question of whether the brain can be adversely affected after 4 weeks by whole-body exposure with different doses of 56 Fe ion irradiation and the experiments showed that exposure resulted in significant impairment of cognitive performance.
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