(n.) An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(2) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(3) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(4) Extrapyramidal syndromes after ischemic anoxia are rare, when compared to their relative frequency after carbon monoxide poisoning.
(5) PaO2, PaCO2, plasma and erythrocyte pH, haemoglobin, haematocrit, and carbon monoxide saturation and intraerythrocytic 2-3 diphosphoglycerate concentration were measured during steady-state ventilation.
(6) Spirometry and lung volumes, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, chest radiograph, methacholine airway challenge, and bronchoalveolar lavage were done.
(7) Cytochromes b, c(555), possibly c(1), cytochrome oxidase, a carbon monoxide-binding pigment, and flavoproteins were detectable in the spectra of both intact cells and mitochondria.
(8) Readings show carbon monoxide was “significantly elevated” at times during the fire.
(9) Carbon monoxide accelerates the reaction as measured by nitric oxide oxidation or ozone formation.
(10) These cases illustrate the danger of using such heating sources in enclosed spaces, due to their carbon monoxide-generating capability.
(11) In the presence of dextran sulphate the recombination of hemoglobin with carbon monoxide after flash photolysis is biphasic and the fraction of quickly reacting material increases with dilution of the protein.
(12) The effect of various fuel additives on the ability of platinum-palladium catalytic converters to remove the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon components of automotive exhaust has been examined.
(13) For comparative purposes, blood was obtained from volunteers breathing carbon monoxide-free air and was found to contain 0.45 percent carboxyhemoglobin.
(14) MnO2 reduction with glucose by induced whole cells and cell extracts, was inhibited by 1 mM atebrine, 0.1 mM dicumarol, and 10 mM cyanide but not by antimycin A, 2n-nonyl-4-hydroxyguinoline-N-oxide) (NOQNO), 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-thienyl),1,3-butanedione, or carbon monoxide.
(15) Cigarette smoke contains approximately 5.0% carbon monoxide.
(16) Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) at 15 K was used to probe the magnetic interaction between the visible copper CuA2+ and ferric cytochrome a in the carbon monoxide compound of beef heart cytochrome oxidase.
(17) This cytochrome, designated P-450(CsA), exhibited a type I binding spectrum in the presence of CsA with a Ks(app) of 25 microM, a molecular weight of 52 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and a maximal absorbance at 449 nm when reduced in the presence of carbon monoxide.
(18) The gases measured (mean concentration) included ammonia (34 ppm), hydrogen sulfide (1.4 ppm), carbon monoxide (9.1 ppm) and carbon dioxide (1640 ppm).
(19) All the patients who underwent surgery survived and had a symptomatic improvement, which was accompanied by objective increases in spirometric volumes and by reductions in static lung volumes; there were no improvements in carbon monoxide transfer or blood gas tensions.
(20) The role of carbon monoxide (CO) in causing the physiologic and anatomic changes characteristic of smoke inhalation injury was evaluated in 34 sheep.
Oxygen
Definition:
(n.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.
(n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(2) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(3) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(4) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(5) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(6) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(7) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(8) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
(9) Previous studies have not evaluated the potential for oxygen toxicity at 9.5 psia.
(10) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(11) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(12) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(13) Also for bronchogenic carcinoma with that a dependence could be shown between haemoglobin concentration--and by this the oxygen supply of the tumor--and the reaction of the primary tumor after radiotherapy.
(14) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
(15) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(16) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
(17) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(18) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(19) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(20) Tachycardia, pulmonary hypertension, increased venous oxygen desaturation, and increasing core temperature develop as the syndrome progresses.