Nitrogen load in rats exposed to 8 ATA from 10-35°C does not influence decompression sickness risk

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 795-800

  Fahlman, Andreas ^a   Kayar, Susan R ^a,b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCHAFER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Decompression illness; Diving; Hyperbaria

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLD; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HYPERBARISM; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; RISK FACTOR; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; MALE; NITROGEN; RATS; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33747268654     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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