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Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals
Decompression sickness (DCS; ‘the bends’) is a disease associated with gas uptake at pressure. The basic pathology and cause are relatively well known to human divers. Breath-hold diving marine mammals were thought to be relatively immune to DCS owing to multiple anatomical, physiological and behavi...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267154/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22189402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2088 |