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Delivery of In Vivo Acute Intermittent Hypoxia in Neonatal Rodents to Prime Subventricular Zone-derived Neural Progenitor Cell Cultures
Published on: November 2, 2015
[Effect of hypoxia training on the resistance of animals to inhalation poisoning]
Abstract:
The rats trained to hypoxic hypoxia changed their resistance to the inhalation effect of dioxane and dichloroethane vapors. The training regimen (20-day continuous hypoxia at an altitude of 3,200 m and intermittent hypoxia for 6 hours a day amounting to 25 rises to an altitude of 5,000 m) influenced markedly the intoxication effect. Adaptation to hypoxia increased the alveolar-capillary surface of the lung parenchyma, thus enhancing a better entry of chemicals into the body. The posthypoxic pattern of the structural rearrangement of the pulmonary tissue was similar to that observed during moderate hyperoxia.
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