Hooray for hypoxia? A new study comes to a counter-intuitive conclusion: Hypoxia may have its benefits for patients with lung injury

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0480-0482

  Bellingan, Geoff ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ENDOTOXIN; OXYGEN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAS EXCHANGE; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VENTILATION; NONHUMAN; RESUSCITATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TACHYPNEA; TISSUE INJURY; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; LUNG; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NOTE; PNEUMONIA;

ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OXYGEN; PNEUMONIA; RECEPTOR, ADENOSINE A2A;

EID: 22144470490     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020130     Document Type: Short Survey

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