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DECORPORATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2014-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiation Protection
  • CBRNE Operations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radioprotection
  • Opérations CBRNE

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiation Protection
  • Protection of Life
OBS

Plutonium biokinetics is compared in rats contaminated by plutonium-citrate i.v. and treated or not with DTPA after 1 h ... Thus plutonium decorporation by DTPA is a slow process that mainly involves retention compartments other than the blood. Plutonium-ligand complexes formed during plutonium deposition in the retention organs appear to be the main source of decorporated plutonium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radioprotection
  • Sécurité des personnes
CONT

[...] le facteur de dose efficace engagée qui dépend des caractéristiques physiques du radionucléide (période, énergie des rayonnements émis) et surtout de sa biocinétique de décorporation, laquelle dépend du mode d'incorporation (inhalation ou ingestion).

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Protection of Life
  • Radiation Protection
CONT

This report presents a summary of information pertaining to intake and decorporation of radionuclides from humans. [The] literature review summarizes decorporation strategies for a variety of exposure scenarios, including radionuclide ingestion, inhalation and wound absorption. However, although medical decorporation is a well-studied endeavour, very few therapeutic drugs are readily available to health care providers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Radioprotection
DEF

Traitement visant à éliminer de l'organisme, au moyen d'une substance chimique, des éléments radioactifs ou toxiques qui ont été incorporés.

OBS

La substance chimique utilisée est appelée «décorporant» (en anglais : «decorporation agent»).

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Protection of Life
  • Radiation Protection
CONT

To date, contracts have been awarded using the Project BioShield special reserve fund for the purchase of anthrax therapeutics, anthrax vaccines, botulism antitoxin, a pediatric formulation of potassium iodide (a drug that blocks absorption of radioactive iodide in the thyroid gland), and Calcium- and Zinc-DTPA (two forms of a decorporation agent to remove transuranic radionuclides from the body).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Radioprotection
DEF

[...] substance chimique utilisée dans [un] traitement visant à éliminer de l'organisme [...] des éléments radioactifs ou toxiques qui ont été incorporés.

Spanish

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