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Carbon Monoxide may cut skeletal muscle injuries
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The Hindustan Times
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June 9, 2008
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Washington, June 9 -- Carbon monoxide may be known for long term health hazards, but a new study has revealed that inhaling it can significantly reduce skeletal muscle injury following limb peripheral vascular disease (ischemia).
Ischemia is a condition where blood flow is interrupted and can be compounded by reperfusion, when damage is caused after the blood supply returns to the tissue. When this occurs, there can be limb loss or death.
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reviewed the results the experiments conducted on 23 mice from two groups, in which 10 were given CO and 13 were not,
"Mice that ...