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MRI detection of hyperoxia-induced lung edema in Zn-deficient rats
C G Taylor1, R A Towner, E G Janzen
1Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Free Radical Biology & Medicine
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
In a pioneering application of proton Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), lung edema has been monitored in vivo in Zn-deficient rats exposed to 85% oxygen. Dietary Zn appears to play a role in protecting against hyperoxia-induced lung damage.