Oxygen supplementation to stabilize preterm infants in the fetal to neonatal transition: no satisfactory answer.
Fetal life elapses in a relatively low oxygen environment. Immediately after birth with the initiation of breathing the lung expands and oxygen availability to tissue rises by twofold generating a physiologic oxidative stress. However, both lung anatomy and function and the antioxidant defense syst...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Pediatrics |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fped.2016.00029/full |