 Xenon gas "can be used to treat newborns"
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Conundrum
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Sat Apr 10 2010, 08:27AM
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interesting.
Can anyone explain why this works?
one can only speculate it has something to do with the anaesthetic properties of xenon dampening down neural firing, allowing the cells to repair themselves.
i vaguely recall something similar being used with barbiturates (?!) a while back, but iirc this was too dangerous for routine use due to the possibility of respiratory failure.
-A
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Proud Mary
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Prof. Marianne Thoreson's work on human neonates is an outcome of this porcine study of 2009:
A Closed-Circuit Neonatal Xenon Delivery System:
A Technical and Practical Neuroprotection Feasibility
Study in Newborn Pigs
the which is a follow on from Thoreson's 2008 work with rats here:
Xenon/Hypothermia Neuroprotection Regimes in
Spontaneously Breathing Neonatal Rats After
Hypoxic-Ischemic Insult: The Respiratory and Sedative Effects
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