Sentences with phrase «of oxygen starvation»

When dogs have an abnormally low red blood cell mass — and therefore an abnormally low amount of hemoglobin available to carry oxygen throughout their bodies — they basically experience varying degrees of oxygen starvation.

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The gas seems to act as an antioxidant, protecting brain cells from the toxic aftereffects of oxygen starvation that strokes can cause.

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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.

Even though they endure starvation, oxygen shortages, and pummeling from the immune system, they continue to divide out of control.

Scientists from the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues examined the critical role of tissue hypoxia, or oxygen starvation, in the induction and amplification of FOP lesions, also called flare - ups.

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.

These changes can cause the heart to beat rapidly, resulting in increased oxygen usage and possibly to oxygen starvation of the heart muscle.

This oxygen starvation may cause heart cells to die off, worsening heart function and leading to the development of arrhythmias (in which the heart beats too rapidly, too slowly, or with an irregular rhythm).

Because, if it ain't ocean acidification that will kill of marine life, then for sure it's got ta be the speculative oxygen starvation that does the job, donchaknow!