Post Treatment With an FGF Chimeric Growth Factor Enhances Epithelial Cell Proliferation to Improve Recovery From Radiation-Induced Intestinal Damage

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8231854	International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics	2010	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

These findings suggest that FGFC strongly enhanced radioprotection with the induction of epithelial proliferation without exogenous heparin after irradiation and is useful in clinical applications for both the prevention and post treatment of radiation injuries.

Keywords

Radiation damage Proliferation Intestine fibroblast growth factor Chimeric protein

Related Topics

Physical Sciences and Engineering Physics and Astronomy Radiation

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Post Treatment With an FGF Chimeric Growth Factor Enhances Epithelial Cell Proliferation to Improve Recovery From Radiation-Induced Intestinal Damage

Authors

Fumiaki M.D., Ph.D., Akiko B.S., Sachiko B.S., Masahiro Ph.D., Megumi M.S., Junko M.S., Masashi Ph.D., Toru Ph.D., Makoto M.D., Ph.D.,