News tagged with blood oxygen

Beetroot juice boosts stamina, new study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beetroot juice boosts your stamina and could help you exercise for up to 16% longer. A University of Exeter led-study, published today, shows for the first time how the nitrate contained ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations

Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Proteins by design: Biochemists create new protein from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- No doubt proteins are complex. Most are "large" and full of interdependent branches, pockets and bends in their final folded structure. This complexity frustrates biochemists and protein engineers ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record

The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hydrogen peroxide marshals immune system (w/Video)

When you were a kid your mom poured it on your scraped finger to stave off infection. When you got older you might have even used it to bleach your hair. Now there's another possible function for this over-the-counter colorless ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope for treatment of pre-eclampsia

Scientists have discovered a mechanism which raises blood pressure in pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition which occurs during pregnancy.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers show new antioxidant could help treat cardiovascular disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow believe they have found a potential new treatment for cardiovascular disease which reduces blood pressure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aging-related degeneration caused by defects of energy metabolism in tissue stem cells?

Aging-related tissue degeneration can be caused by mitochondrial dysfunction in tissue stem cells. The research group of Professor Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara in Helsinki University, with their collaborators in Max Planck ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dangerous blood pressure increases during exercise can be blocked: research

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified one reason people with hypertension experience an even greater increase in their blood pressure when they exercise, and they've learned how to prevent the rise.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Less of a stink in diabetes patients?

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying

Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Systems biology helps to understand hematopoiesis

After blood loss, large amounts of the hormone Epo flood the hematopoietic system in the bone marrow. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg have now published an article ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Opioid-blocking medication reduces brain's response to alcoholism cues

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have produced the first evidence that the opioid blocker extended-release injectable naltrexone (XR-NTX) is able to reduce the brain's response to cues that may cause alcoholics ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Let me hear your heart beat

(PhysOrg.com) -- What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1