Citation

Frattali V, Quesada M, Robertson R. Aviat. Space Environ. Med. 1977; 48(1): 29-32.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, Aerospace Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

831709

Abstract

The mortality rate due to decompression injury was found to be significantly greater in a rat population with a mild vitamin B-6 deficiency, compared to an adequately fed control group, when subjected to a bends-producing N2-O2 dive. Relative post-dive changes in lactate dehydrogenase, creatine phosphokinase, and transaminase levels in plasma do not appear to be sufficiently different to allow a ready distinction in the degree of susceptibility of one nutritionally defined population from the other.

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