Determination of natural in vivo noble-gas concentrations in human blood.

Although the naturally occurring atmospheric noble gases He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe possess great potential as tracers for studying gas exchange in living beings, no direct analytical technique exists for simultaneously determining the absolute concentrations of these noble gases in body fluids in vivo....

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Main Authors: Yama Tomonaga, Matthias S Brennwald, David M Livingstone, Geneviève Tomonaga, Rolf Kipfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014594?pdf=render