Sentences with phrase «studies lung injury»

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Radovitzky says this reasoning stems from studies of «blast lung» — blast - induced injuries such as tearing, hemorrhaging, and swelling of the lungs, where it was found that mass matters: The larger an animal is, the more resilient it may be to lung damage.

A new collaborative study describes a way that lung tissue can regenerate after injury.

Studies show 40 - 60 ppm produces lung injury; 430 ppm usually causes death in 30 minutes, and 1,000 ppm is fatal within a few minutes.

An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers publishing in the journal Nature on May 1.

Previous scientific studies have revealed that acute lung injury caused by the influenza virus is the result of an immune reaction mediated by a protein called Toll - like receptor 4 (TLR4).

Two studies published in the January issue of Anesthesiology, the official medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists ® (ASA ®), shed new light on the prevalence of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and transfusion - associated circulatory overload (TACO), the number one and two leading causes of blood transfusion - related deaths in the United States.

Examples include a series of studies to document persistent microchimerism of donor cells in transfusion recipients, with particular focus on mechanisms and clinical relevance of donor stem cell microchimerism in transfused trauma patients, and the immunological mechanisms and prevention of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and alloimmunization.

The HARP study showed that 80 mg of simvastatin administered acutely to patients with acute lung injury showed significant improvements in organ failure scores, suggesting that statins modulate the systemic inflammation after only a short duration of treatment [17].

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that coffee drinkers had a lower risk of dying from heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes, infections — and even injuries and accidents!

A study of bat deaths at a local wind farm by the University of Calgary reported by Science Daily found that the majority of migratory bats in this location were killed because a sudden drop in air pressure near the blades caused injuries to the bats» lungs known as barotrauma.