Deep diving mammals: Dive behavior and circulatory adjustments contribute to bends avoidance

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-77

  Fahlman, A ^a   Olszowka, A ^b   Bostrom, Brian ^a   Jones, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Decompression sickness; Decompression stop; Inert gas flux; Modelling; Pressure

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOLPHIN; GAS FLOW; HEART OUTPUT MEASUREMENT; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG PERFUSION; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN BALANCE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; TACHYCARDIA; TISSUE INJURY; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD CIRCULATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746721543     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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