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“BPD has transformed its policies and procedures related to transportation … so that today, the department can meet the standards required for the safe transportation of persons in custody,” the city’s acting solicitor, Ebony Thompson, said during a Wednesday news conference.
BPD often occurs alongside the neonatal eye disease ROP, which impairs vision irreversibly, suggesting a related pathogenesis.
BPD, also called chronic lung disease of immaturity, afflicts approximately one third of all extremely premature infants, causing lifelong lung damage.
However, specific mechanisms of BPD and ROP remain unknown.
Investigators used a neonatal mouse model of coincident BPD and retinopathy to screen for candidate mediators.
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