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perfluorocarbon

 [per-floor´o-kahr″bon]
any of various substances chemically related to a hydrocarbons but with the hydrogen atoms replaced by fluorine atoms. In gaseous form they cause environmental damage by collecting in the upper atmosphere; in liquid form, some are used in partial liquid ventilation.
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(24.) Spahn DR (1999) Blood substitutes artificial oxygen carriers: perfluorocarbon emulsions.
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Since then various filling gas such as nitrogen, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride has been used as microbubble which carried a particle size of 1-5 microns.
Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory used colorless, nontoxic liquids called perfluorocarbon tracers to essentially fingerprint carbon dioxide that was injected into a coal seam in northwestern New Mexico.
(Durham, NC) has submitted a patent application for a new invention that uses Oxycyte perfluorocarbon to deliver oxygen as a first aid treatment for victims of heart attacks and strokes.
The topics of their seven papers include the interaction of drug transporters with excipients, formulation issues around lipid-based oral and parenteral delivery systems, the biological implications of lipid-based parenteral delivery systems, principles in the development of intravenous lipid emulsions, the key factor of protein absorption patterns in determining the in vivo fate of parenteral lipid formulations; nanoparticple targeting for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier, and lipid-coated perfluorocarbon structures as parenteral therapeutic agents.
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