Question

What is re-oxygenation? What are the factors that affect re-oxygenation

Answer 1

Answer:

Reoxygenation is the process whereby cells in a tumor that are hypoxic after a dose of radiation become oxygenated again as the tumor shrinks or as the demand for oxygen is reduced.

Answer 2

Disordered breathing events result in hypoxemia, reoxygenation (analogous to ischemic reperfusion), hypercapnia, and a host of neurohormonal abnormalities such as increased sympathetic activity, hypercoagulopathy, release of endothelin, abnormal endothelium-dependent vasodilatation, growth and apoptosis, activation of ...