Methodology for in situ gas sampling, transport and laboratory analysis of gases from stranded cetaceans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  De Quirós, Yara Bernaldo ^a   González Díaz, Óscar ^a   Saavedra, Pedro ^a   Arbelo, Manuel ^a   Sierra, Eva ^a   Sacchini, Simona ^a   Jepson, Paul D ^b,c   Mazzariol, Sandro ^d   Di Guardo, Giovanni ^d   Fernández, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

AIR EMBOLISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYRINGE; TEMPERATURE; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; EMBOLISM, AIR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SYRINGES; TEMPERATURE; WHALES;

EID: 84859772486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00193     Document Type: Article

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