Word: oxygenated
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...lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery savages the memory (something to do with oxygen deprivation while on the heart-lung machine). My memory was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of... you know, the "Gonzo journalist" of "Fear and Loathing" fame... Rolling Stone... you know...
...doesn't cause mental dysfunction so much as unmask it, in the way that a stress test can reveal an underlying heart condition. After all, if the arteries are clogged, there's a good chance that at least a few blood vessels in your head are having trouble getting oxygen to your brain. Confusion and memory problems can also be a sign of depression, which has its own causes and treatments...
...gamma secretase execute a one-two snip that cuts a larger precursor protein into a shorter fragment. Sometimes the fragment is 40 units long, sometimes 42. The slightly longer variant, scientists have found, is directly toxic to nerve cells. Among other things, it appears to stimulate the release of oxygen free radicals, thereby setting off in the brain a destructive biochemical cascade...
ROTO-ROOTER It took a study of 62,000 patients to confirm what many cardiologists already suspected: when it comes to heart attacks, angioplasties save more lives than clot-busting drugs. Both treatments aim to clear arterial blockages that deprive the heart of oxygen. But the odds of dying in a hospital after an emergency angioplasty--a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded through the vessel--are 40% lower than after a round of clot busters. Caveat: the finding applies only to centers that perform angioplasties frequently--at least 50 times a year...
...Microsoft breakup? Not yet. Middle East peace? Not hardly. The Oxygen network? Jack Welch's retirement? Heck, Jesus was supposed to show...