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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Free Radic Biol Med. 2009 Jun 21;47(6):779–785. doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.06.020

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Hypothetical mechanism of radioprotection of gastrointestinal epithelium by pyridoxamine (PM). PM scavenges or inhibits formation of ionizing radiation-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) and/or reactive carbonyl species (RCS) thus inhibiting apoptotic cell death resulted from radiation.