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Fig. 1 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

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From: Carbon monoxide in intensive care medicine—time to start the therapeutic application?!

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Carbon monoxide may be administered to the human body in three different ways: First by the induction of haem-oxygenase-1 to a relevant level, second by the inhalation of carbon monoxide itself, and third by the intravenous injection or oral intake of any kind of carbon monoxide releasing molecule. Possible target organs include (but are not limited to) the brain, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the kidney, the pancreas, the gut, and the vessels. The effects of carbon monoxide application may be (single or more than just one): anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic, anti-proliferative, anti-oxidative, anti-atherosclerotic, anti-thrombotic, vasodilative, neuroprotective, as well as pro-inflammatory or pro-apopototic

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