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Dr. Caleb Kelly, a gastroenterology fellow at Yale University, was recently asked to review a paper
about mammals receiving lifesaving oxygen through their anuses. “I laughed, to be honest,” he said.
“I thought it was ①a joke.”
It seems like a no-brainer that bottoms are not for breathing. But the authors of a new study,
published Friday in the journal Med, are perfectly serious. They showed that when some mice orpigs are dangerously deprived of air, an enema of oxygen-carrying liquid can rescue them.
“It actually turns out it could be a feasible approach,” said Dr. Kelly, who wrote a commentary
accompanying the new paper.
② Dr. Takanori Takebe, of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University and the Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center, was motivated to study this unusual idea by his father’s struggle with lungdisease. Mechanical ventilators can keep patients alive when their lungs are failing, but these tools
aren’t always available, and they can run out, as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown.
And although he may be a ways off from studying the idea in human patients, Dr. Takebe said that
“we clearly need different strategies to help out patients with severe lung failure.”
His research had focused on using stem cells in dishes to grow miniature organs, such as lungs. Thenhe decided to try something totally different: Instead of growing new organs, why not repurpose theorgans that mammals, including people, already have?
③ Turning to the animal kingdom for inspiration, Dr. Takebe learned that many fish and othercreatures have evolved multitasking organs. For example, fish called loaches use their gills to takeoxygen from the water, as most fish do. But they can also pop their heads above the surface for agulp of air. Loaches don’t have lungs, so the air they swallow travels through their digestive tract,
where their intestines absorb the oxygen they need.
④ Dr. Takebe and his co-authors set out to see if a mammal’s intestines could also absorb oxygen.
They started by simply pumping oxygen gas up the rectums of anesthetized, oxygen-deprived mice.
Though the procedure helped the mice survive longer, it worked best when researchers scraped theintestinal wall to thin it, making this method not very appealing for treating sick human patients.

Next the scientists tried delivering oxygen in liquid form. They added oxygen to a perfluorochemical,
a compound “that has an incredible capacity to absorb gases,” Dr. Kelly said. Perfluorochemicals
were even tested as a kind of artificial blood in the early 2000s.
⑤ The scientists squirted this oxygen-packed liquid into the rectums of mice and pigs. They foundthat when the animals were dangerously deprived of oxygen, the procedure boosted their bloodoxygen. The mice started walking around again; the pale skin of the anesthetized pigs turned ahealthy pink.
Dr. Takebe said that he didn’t expect the procedure to work as well as it did. “They are completely
recovering from the very, very severe hypoxia,” he said. “That was really astonishing to me.”（後略）
出典：Elizabeth Preston, “Breathing Through the Rectum Saves Oxygen-Starved Mice and Pigs”,
The New York Times 電子版, May 14, 2021
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/science/rectum-breathing-oxygen.html)

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問 2 下線部②～⑤の日本語訳を解答欄に記述しなさい。ただし、名前や施設名は英語のままでかまわない。

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