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Table 1

Selenium and selenium-containing compounds and metabolites to function as valuable radioprotective adjuvants. Se-L-Met, Seleno-L-Methionine; Eb, Ebselen; Se-NPs, selenium nanoparticles.

Type of Selenium Seupplementation Dosage of Selenium Object Dosage of Radiation Timing Author
Selenium 800 IU for selenium group and 50 mg for combined group human 2 Gy of X-rays before radiation Rostami et al. (2016)
  0.8 mg/kg body weight mice 2 Gy of γ irradiation before radiation H Bagheri et al. (2019)
Se-L-Met 10 µM RKO cells UV-radiation before radiation Fischer et al. (2006)
  100 µg/kg body weight/day*30d mice UV-radiation before radiation Guo, Guo, and Liu (2020)
  4 mg/kg body weight rats 2 Gy of γ irradiation before radiation H Bagheri et al. (2017)
  4 mg/kg body weight rats 15 Gy of γ irradiation 1 day before and 3 consecutive days after radiation Amini et al. (2018)
  4 mg/kg body weight rats 15 Gy of γ irradiation 1 day before and 5 consecutive days after radiation Amini et al. (2019)
Eb 5 µM U937 cells 2/20 Gy of γ irradiation before radiation Tak and Park (2009)
  10 mg/kg body weight/day*14d mice 8 Gy of γ irradiation before radiation  
Sodium Selenite 50 nM CHEK-1 cells 2 Gy of X-rays before radiation Puspitasari et al. (2017)
  0.8 mg/kg body weight rats 15 Gy of X-rays before radiation Yamasaki et al. (2019)
  cumulative dose of 17 mg human Depending on the individual treatment plan during the whole radiotherapy Muecke et al. (2010,2014)
  4µg/kg body weight mice 5/8 Gy of γ radiation before and after radiation Verma, Kunwar, and Indira Priyadarsini (2017)
Sodium Selenite and Se-L-Met 100 µg of (atomic) selenium/d*21w rats 10 Gy of X-rays after radiation Sieber et al. (2009)
  150 or 200µg/d*4m       Sieber et al. (2011)
Sodium Selenite and Se-NPs 0.1 mg/kg body weight*14d mice 2/8 Gy of γ irradiation before and after radiation Karami et al. (2018)

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