Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Staff Sergeant Robert Snow of Southington, Conn., gave quite a bit in Operation Desert Storm. A land-mine explosion left him with a shattered left arm, a broken leg and a collapsed lung. Last week Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., gave quite a bit in return: $100,000, as a wedding gift to Snow and his bride Karin Pajor...
These findings, as well as work that Avery performed showing that administration of surfactant in the lamb fetus accelerated lung growth, set the stage for clinical trails of the substance...
Tetsoro Fujiwara, a Japanese researcher, began surfactant replacement therapy in infants, the results of which were reported in 1980. Fujiwara was able to achieve success in this therapy through the use of calf-lung surfactant administered as a liquid into the trachea...
Because of its inherent low surface tension, surfactant can move easily through the lung, distributing very evenly, Avery says...
Insulin opposes the action of enzymes necessary to make surfactant, says Avery, and thus leads to immature lung formation...