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SUBMITTER: Sanjon EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6656752 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sanjon Elvira P EP Maier Andreas A Hinrichs Annika A Kraft Gerhard G Drossel Barbara B Fournier Claudia C
Scientific reports 20190724 1
Radon is a radioactive noble gas that can enter the human body, thus increasing the risk of lung cancer. But it is also used for treatment of various ailments, most notably rheumatoid arthritis. The accumulation of radon differs between tissues, with particularly high concentrations in fat tissue. To understand the underlying mechanisms, a combination of γ-spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations were performed, to study the accumulation of radon gas in contact with several liquids (water ...[more]