METHODS RELATING TO BREATHING DISORDERS

摘要

Methods for treating breathing disorders by inhibition of the induced PGE2 pathway in a mammalian subject, methods for assessing apnea, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy or perinatal asphyxia by detecting an elevated level of PGE2, or a metabolite thereof, in a sample from the subject compared with a control level, and in vitro and in vivo screening methods for medicaments for treating breathing disorders are disclosed.