Why Acidosis Can Cause Brain Damage in Newborns with Jaundice (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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The video discusses the novelty and implications of our research, and the image shows a new finding in our study. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 12, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Lai at Sixth People's Hospital of Shanghai in Shanghai, China; and colleagues was titled, "Bilirubin enhances the activity of ASIC channels to exacerbate neurotoxicity in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in mice."

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