[Effect of hypoxic argon-containing gas mixtures on developing organism].
Experimental data on the impact of argon-containing hypoxic breathing mixtures on the early embryonic growth of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica dom.) are presented. The results showed that after 4-day incubation of eggs in an oxygen-nitrogen breathing mixture (13.8-15.0% O2, 86.2-85.0% N2) only 16.7% embryos reached the stage of 3.5-d development. Introduction in the hypoxic mixture of argon (55% of the total volume) increased the number of embryos on the stage of 3.5-4 day of normal morphological development to 60%. It became evident from the analysis that embryos developed in the O2-Ar-N2 hypoxic mixture had 25% less pathologies as compared with embryos developed in a largely nitrogen-containing gas mixture. Hence, we received the experimental evidence that 55% of argon in a hypoxic breathing mixture with up to 15% of oxygen is favorable to the early embryonic growth of Japanese quail stimulating metabolic processes in germ organism.
Gur'eva
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Dadasheva
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OA
Soldatov
P E
PE
Sychev
V N
VN
Mednikova
E I
EI
Smirnov
I A
IA
Smolenskaia
T S
TS
Dadasheva
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MT
D000818:Animals; D001128:Argon / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003370:Coturnix / Q000196:embryology*; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000196:embryology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000494:pharmacology*
D001128:Argon; D009584:Nitrogen