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University of Missouri reports research in life sciences

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, August 10th, 2008

Scientists discuss in 'Chronic hypoxia and rat lung development: analysis by morphometry and directed microarray' new findings in life sciences. "It is unclear how sublethal hypoxia affects lung development. To investigate the effects of chronic hypoxia on postnatal lung remodeling, we treated neonatal rats with FIO2 of 0.12 for 10 d and analyzed lung development by morphometry and gene expression by DNA microarray," investigators in the United States report.

"Our results showed the neonatal rats exposed to hypoxia reduced body weight by 42% and wet lung weight by 32% compared with the neonatal rats exposed to normoxia. In the neonatal rats exposed to hypoxia, the...

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