Helium
"Helium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Helium. A noble gas with the atomic symbol He, atomic number 2, and atomic weight 4.003. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is not combustible and does not support combustion. It was first detected in the sun and is now obtained from natural gas. Medically it is used as a diluent for other gases, being especially useful with oxygen in the treatment of certain cases of respiratory obstruction, and as a vehicle for general anesthetics. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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D006371
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.613.350 D01.362.641.352
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Helium" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Niedbalski PJ, Cochran AS, Freeman MS, Guo J, Fugate EM, Davis CB, Dahlke J, Quirk JD, Varisco BM, Woods JC, Cleveland ZI. Validating in vivo hyperpolarized 129 Xe diffusion MRI and diffusion morphometry in the mouse lung. Magn Reson Med. 2021 04; 85(4):2160-2173.