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hypoxic

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hypoxic
a state of hypoxia.

hypoxic cell sensitizers
compounds that selectively sensitize hypoxic tumor cells to the effects of radiation.
hypoxic vasoconstriction
reduced oxygen supply to tissues causes local vasoconstriction and diversion of the blood to other tissues.

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The patient had triple bypass surgery the next day and did not suffer any hypoxic brain damage as a result of this incident, mainly because Donkin administered CPR and used an AED in a timely manner.
crop, he says growing corn for ethanol production increases water pollution and contributes to the hypoxic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
What we hypothesize is that the carbon monoxide component of the diesel exhaust is actually making that environment even more hypoxic and disrupting normal gene programming that should lead to normal septation of the aorta and pulmonary artery," says Walker.
 
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