Breath-hold diving involves highly integrative physiology and extreme responses to both
exercise and asphyxia during progressive elevations in hydrostatic pressure. With …

Breath-hold diving involves environmental challenges, such as water immersion, hydrostatic
pressure, and asphyxia, that put the respiratory system under stress. While training and …

Advanced Environmental Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, offers physiology students
and exercise science professionals a complete look at the major topics and debates in the …

Purpose Divers can experience cognitive impairment due to inert gas narcosis (IGN) at
depth. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) rules neuronal connectivity/metabolism to …

Continuous measurements of haemodynamic and oxygenation changes in free living
animals remain elusive. However, developments in biomedical technologies may help to fill …

Purpose Breath-hold diving results in significant changes in blood gases' levels.
Challenging variations in oxygen partial pressures may induce reactive oxygen species …

Pulmonary gas exchange in breath-hold diving (BHD) consists of a progressive increase in
arterial partial pressures of oxygen (P a O 2) and carbon dioxide (P a CO 2) during descent …

Underwater activities are characterized by an imbalance between reactive oxygen/nitrogen
species (RONS) and antioxidant mechanisms, which can be associated with an …

Pulmonary gas exchange during diving or in a dry hyperbaric environment is affected by
increased breathing gas density and possibly water immersion. During free diving, there is …

Arterial blood gas (ABG) measurements at both maximum depth and at resurfacing prior to
breathing have not previously been measured during free dives conducted to extreme depth …