Diversity in and adaptation to breath-hold diving in humans

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 205-213

  Ferretti, Guido ^a,b   Costa, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ama; Control of ventilation; Diving populations; Diving response; Extreme breath hold divers; Lung volumes; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW; BRADYCARDIA; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TOLERANCE; DIVING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG VOLUME; METABOLIC RATE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; ORGAN PERFUSION; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; SHIVERING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRESS; VASOCONSTRICTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0142106517     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00134-X     Document Type: Review

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