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BREAKTHROUGH FOR HEART DISEASES,ORGAN
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Scientists at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology(FIB)
connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, while working on mice, have been able prevent muscle tissues from dying due to lack of oxygen. The
breakthrough, they say, may hold implictions in organ
transplants & diseases.Normally, clogging of blood vessels results in a localised deficiency of oxygen that in turn casues the surrouinding tissue to die. However, the new dicovery may allow the muscle to ‘adapt ’ to the lack of oxygen, an inherent metabolic mechanism in hibernating animals.