When there is a lack of oxygen in the brain, glutamate, a neurotransmitter, is released from neurons in large amounts. This increased glutamate causes the production of NO. NO produced in neurons ...

In a new study published in iScience, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their collaborators have uncovered a crucial mechanism that could explain memory ...

Physicians have long used xenon in other ways: as an anesthetic and to treat brain damage that results from a lack of oxygen. Some studies had previously shown that xenon could protect neurons ...

retinal hemorrhages in both eyes and had suffered brain damage from a lack of oxygen, court records said. Doctors reported there were also previous and healing rib fractures that were evident with ...

The star of the action movie franchise told Empire magazine: "When you stick your face out (of an aeroplane), going over 120 ...

Are contact lenses safe Explore potential negative effects like infections dry eye and corneal hypoxia An expert explains how ...

MRI scans of human fetuses in utero—here, between 27 and 29 weeks of gestation—show the development of the brain and other ... often blamed on stress or lack of oxygen during birth.

Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, went from having one baby being diagnosed with a lack of oxygen ...