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Generally, when you think of carbon monoxide, nothing good comes to mind. And that’s… pretty reasonable. But elephant seals show us how we might be able to use carbon monoxide as an effective therapy for heart attacks and strokes.

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Sources:
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/217/10/1752.full.pdf
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2017/1689341/
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160403200359.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3228

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