News tagged with oxygen flow
Turning slash piles into soil benefit
Your next bite of an organically grown apple may hold within it a tiny bit of a Washington forest.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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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.
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Dementia, high blood pressure and brain blood flow may be linked
Blood flow through the brain is essential for the delivery of nutrients such as glucose and oxygen that are needed for nerve cells to function. During the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 29, 2010 |
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New insights could mean better fish feeds
A better understanding of what happens in a fish's body when it eats could lead to the production of better fish feeds. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, are hoping to contribute to more energy-efficient ...
Aug 16, 2010 |
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New Approach Developed to Improve Drug Delivery in Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- By using mathematical modeling to understand blood flow, researchers -- including the UA's Timothy Secomb, a pioneer in the field -- have proposed a novel approach to treating cancerous tumors.
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Study: Added oxygen during stroke reduces brain tissue damage
Scientists have countered findings of previous clinical trials by showing that giving supplemental oxygen to animals during a stroke can reduce damage to brain tissue surrounding the clot.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Cardiac arrest resuscitation: Passive oxygen flow better than assisted ventilation
Arizona researchers have added another piece to the mounting body of evidence that suggests during resuscitation efforts to treat patients in cardiac arrest, "passive ventilation" significantly increases survival rates, compared ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Mathematics taking guesswork out of plastic surgery tissue transfer
Plastic surgeons are turning to mathematics to take the guesswork out of efforts to ensure that live tissue segments that are selected to restore damaged body parts will have enough blood and oxygen to survive the surgical ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight
Pregnant women who are indigenous to the Andes Mountains deliver more blood and oxygen to their fetuses at high altitude than do women of European descent. The study helps explain why babies of Andean descent ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 18, 2009 |
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Research team tests bedside monitoring of brain blood flow and metabolism in stroke victims
A University of Pennsylvania team has completed the first successful demonstration of a noninvasive optical device to monitor cerebral blood flow in patients with acute stroke, a leading cause of disability and death.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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