Sentences with phrase «enough oxygen starvation»

The release of epinephrine that occurs during fear can be intense enough to cause undue stress such that if the heart muscle were borderline «starved» of oxygen, the increased heart activity due to the epinephrine could cause enough oxygen starvation to cause a heart attack.

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«In these diseases of mitochondrial dysfunction, in a sense, it's a false starvation situation for the cell — there are plenty of nutrients, but because there's a block in the mitochondria's normal function, the mitochondria behave as if there's not enough oxygen,» says Chen, who with Birsoy, authored a paper in the journal Cell Reports describing this work.
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