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Inhalation of xenon gas shows promise as a neuroprotective treatment for Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Brigham and Women's Hospital published findings in Science Translational Medicine showing that inhaling xenon gas improved cognition in ...
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Xenon out of its shell
On one occasion, however, he collected the gas remaining in his apparatus ... a Greek word meaning 'foreign'. Xenon now finds uses in fields as varied as lasers and incandescent lamps, plasma ...
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Might xenon gas be useful for treating Alzheimer’s, as a new study suggests?
In medicine, it has been used as an anaesthetic since the early 1950s and ... The scientists gave the mice xenon gas to inhale, which changed the state of their microglia. This altered state allowed ...
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Pioneering detailed lung MRI scans without radiation
The safe scan uses inhaled hyperpolarised xenon gas to pick up on lung abnormalities previously undetected with routine tests. The Pulmonary, Lung and Respiratory Imaging Sheffield (POLARIS) research ...
Russian Olympians 'illegally pumped up'
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has promised to take action over claims Russian athletes inhaled performance-enhancing ...