Regulation of autophagy via PERK-eIF2α effectively relieve the radiation myelitis induced by iodine-125.

Radiation myelitis is the most serious complication in clinical radiotherapy for spinal metastases. We previously showed that (125)I brachytherapy induced apoptosis of spinal cord neurons accompanied by autophagy. In this study, we further investigated the mechanism by which (125)I radiation trigger...

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Main Authors: Zuozhang Yang, Yongqing Xu, Lei Xu, Giulio Maccauro, Barbara Rossi, Yanjin Chen, Hongjun Li, Jing Zhang, Hongpu Sun, Yihao Yang, Da Xu, Xuefeng Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3818370?pdf=render