• Question: What sort of drugs do you put in lungs?

    Asked by knarfnerol to Audra on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by meganmoult.
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      Audra Benjamin answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Adrenaline, the chemical that is released when you are faced with danger and makes your heart beat faster, you breath faster, your palms get sweaty and many more things. When this is put into liquid filled lungs, they absorb liquid faster.

      I also use drugs that block channels, activate or inhibit enzymes. All this is to find out what controls the lungs ability to absorb liquid. There are illnesses where the lungs start to fill with liquid which can lead to death, so if we know how to increase the lungs ability to absorb liquid, we can help people with these illnesses.

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