Carbon dioxide (CO2) blood tests evaluate the presence of the gas in your blood. If your CO2 levels rise too high or fall too ...

An arterial blood gas (ABG) test involves taking a blood sample from an artery in your wrist, arm, or groin. ABG test results show how well your lungs move oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of your ...

The potential symptoms mentioned by the authors include “increased heart rate, increased blood pressure ... On the first test day mice in all groups (carbon dioxide exposed and normal air ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source ...

In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of ...

Vampire bats are remarkable creatures that survive exclusively on blood, a diet rich in proteins but low in fats and sugars.

To test the hypothesis ... The study set-up allowed researchers to track the bats’ oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide ...

An experimental portable device might be able to detect lung cancer from a person's exhaled breath, researchers report.

Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what’s going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ...

Test subjects were 43 healthy male volunteers ... and indicates standard errors of these means. Mean blood carbon dioxide tension in control subjects fell most rapidly on the first day and ...

Elevated IL-10 in diabetes causes capillary obstruction, linked to cognitive deficits. Blocking IL-10 receptors shows promise for improving brain function.