Abstract: The study of the effects of ionizing radiations on both growing and adult CNS appears as an aspect directly related to the general theme of this Handbook, since it refers to the “radiobiochemical lesion” of the neuroaxis. Such effects can resemble those produced by other noxious agents. Because we deal here with the intrinsic mechanism through which the ionizing radiation affects the nervous tissue, there is a radiobiological review at the beginning of the chapter. Neuroradiobiochemistry, one of the least known and cultivated frontiers of n...
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