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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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Autores principales: Hooker, S. K., Fahlman, A., Moore, M. J., Aguilar de Soto, N., Bernaldo de Quirós, Y., Brubakk, A. O., Costa, D. P., Costidis, A. M., Dennison, S., Falke, K. J., Fernandez, A., Ferrigno, M., Fitz-Clarke, J. R., Garner, M. M., Houser, D. S., Jepson, P. D., Ketten, D. R., Kvadsheim, P. H., Madsen, P. T., Pollock, N. W., Rotstein, D. S., Rowles, T. K., Simmons, S. E., Van Bonn, W., Weathersby, P. K., Weise, M. J., Williams, T. M., Tyack, P. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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