Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a patient breathes nitric oxide, Zapol said, the gas never leaves the lungs. Instead, it combines with oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in red blood cells and is deactivated, so that any effects are purely local...
Previous treatment for similar respiratory diseases have included mechanical ventilation and infusion of high levels of oxygen, Zapol said, but "nothing to make the lungs smarter...
women, says Katz-Cohen, can especially derive advantages from supplements of iron, which is important for the formation of the blood's oxygen-carrying molecule, hemoglobin...
...afflicts up to 100,000 black Americans. A preliminary study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that butyrate, a widely used flavor enhancer, can overcome the basic cause of the disease. A genetic flaw leads the body to make abnormal hemoglobin, the blood protein that carries essential oxygen...
...this cascade of events could be interrupted, researchers reasoned, then further paralysis might be prevented. In 1990 Michael Bracken of Yale University and his colleagues showed that large doses of an inexpensive steroid, methylprednisolone, could do the job. Apparently, the drug attaches itself to the oxygen free radicals, preventing them from attacking vulnerable tissue. Bracken's study showed that if administered within eight hours of the accident, methylprednisolone could cut the amount of secondary damage in half, sometimes making the difference between the patient's being able to walk...