# Nuclide record radiolysis (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiolysis/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "radiolysis" ;
  schema:name "Radiolysis (self-radiolysis of radiopharmaceuticals)"@en ;
  schema:description "A radioactive drug can damage itself: the radiation it gives off breaks apart water and other molecules in the vial, creating reactive fragments that attack the drug molecule and reduce how much of it is still working correctly by the time it reaches the patient."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiolysis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9967390/>, <https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bc034109i> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiochemical-purity/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/chelator-term/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radiopharmaceutical-gmp-release/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/sterile-fill-finish/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/lu177-radioligand-therapy/> .