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The role of thioredoxin reductase in gold nanoparticle radiosensitization effects

Sébastien Penninckx1, Anne-Catherine Heuskin1, Carine Michiels2

  • 1Research Center for the Physics of Matter & Radiation (PMR-LARN), Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium.

Nanomedicine (London, England)
|November 15, 2018
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Keywords:
biological mechanismgold nanoparticlesproton irradiationradiosensitizationthioredoxin reductase

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