Xenon Upregulates Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 Alpha in Neonatal Rat Brain under Normoxic Conditions

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Expression ratio (xenon to control) of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1α). Compared to air-breathing animals, animals exposed to 75% xenon for 120 min demonstrated a significant 2.3-fold increase in HIF-1α transcript (**𝑃<0.005) with no increase in reference gene (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3PDH)) expression (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis). Error bars represent standard error of the mean.