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A Single Dose for Good Measure: How an Anti-Nuclear-Contamination Pill Could Also Help MRI Patients
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1479" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/09/12/how-an-anti-nuclear-contamination-pill-could-also-help-mri-patients/" target="_blank"><strong>A Single Dose for Good Measure: How an Anti-Nuclear-Contamination Pill Could Also Help MRI Patients - Berkeley Lab</strong></a></p><p></p><p>When chemist <a href="https://commons.lbl.gov/display/csd/Rebecca+Abergel" target="_blank">Rebecca Abergel</a> and her team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) successfully developed <a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/chapter/bk9781782620648-00183/978-1-78262-064-8#!divabstract" target="_blank">an anti-radiation-poisoning pill in 2014</a>, they hoped it would never have to be used.</p><p></p><p>That’s because the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the pill – what scientists call a “chelator” – is designed to remove radioactive contaminants from the body in the event of something horrible, like a nuclear reactor meltdown, or even worse: surviving a nuclear attack.</p><p></p><p>Now the researchers are studying how that very same pill could help to protect people from the potential toxicity of something else – the long-term retention of gadolinium, a critical ingredient in widely used contrast dyes for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1479, member: 1"] [URL='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/09/12/how-an-anti-nuclear-contamination-pill-could-also-help-mri-patients/'][B]A Single Dose for Good Measure: How an Anti-Nuclear-Contamination Pill Could Also Help MRI Patients - Berkeley Lab[/B][/URL] When chemist [URL='https://commons.lbl.gov/display/csd/Rebecca+Abergel']Rebecca Abergel[/URL] and her team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) successfully developed [URL='https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/chapter/bk9781782620648-00183/978-1-78262-064-8#!divabstract']an anti-radiation-poisoning pill in 2014[/URL], they hoped it would never have to be used. That’s because the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the pill – what scientists call a “chelator” – is designed to remove radioactive contaminants from the body in the event of something horrible, like a nuclear reactor meltdown, or even worse: surviving a nuclear attack. Now the researchers are studying how that very same pill could help to protect people from the potential toxicity of something else – the long-term retention of gadolinium, a critical ingredient in widely used contrast dyes for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans. [/QUOTE]
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