Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats
© 2015 Taylor and Francis. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if, after controlling for weight, age is associated with decompression sickness (DCS) in rats. Methods: Following compression-decompression, male rats aged 11 weeks were observed for DCS. After two weeks recovery, surviving...
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| author | Buzzacott, Peter Theron, M. Mazur, A. Wang, Q. Lambrechts, K. Eftedal, I. Ardestani, S. Guerrero, F. |
| author_facet | Buzzacott, Peter Theron, M. Mazur, A. Wang, Q. Lambrechts, K. Eftedal, I. Ardestani, S. Guerrero, F. |
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| description | © 2015 Taylor and Francis. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if, after controlling for weight, age is associated with decompression sickness (DCS) in rats. Methods: Following compression-decompression, male rats aged 11 weeks were observed for DCS. After two weeks recovery, surviving rats were re-dived using the same compression-decompression profile. Results: In this experiment, there was a clear difference between DCS outcome at ages 11 or 13 weeks in matched rats (p = 0.002). Discussion: Even with weight included in the model, age was significantly associated with DCS (p = 0.01), yet after removal of weight the association was much stronger (p = 0.002). Conclusion: We believe that age is likely to be found associated with the probability of DCS in a larger dataset with a wider range of parameters, after accounting for the effect of weight. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-725852018-12-13T09:34:31Z Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats Buzzacott, Peter Theron, M. Mazur, A. Wang, Q. Lambrechts, K. Eftedal, I. Ardestani, S. Guerrero, F. © 2015 Taylor and Francis. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if, after controlling for weight, age is associated with decompression sickness (DCS) in rats. Methods: Following compression-decompression, male rats aged 11 weeks were observed for DCS. After two weeks recovery, surviving rats were re-dived using the same compression-decompression profile. Results: In this experiment, there was a clear difference between DCS outcome at ages 11 or 13 weeks in matched rats (p = 0.002). Discussion: Even with weight included in the model, age was significantly associated with DCS (p = 0.01), yet after removal of weight the association was much stronger (p = 0.002). Conclusion: We believe that age is likely to be found associated with the probability of DCS in a larger dataset with a wider range of parameters, after accounting for the effect of weight. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72585 10.3109/13813455.2016.1140787 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Buzzacott, Peter Theron, M. Mazur, A. Wang, Q. Lambrechts, K. Eftedal, I. Ardestani, S. Guerrero, F. Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title | Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title_full | Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title_fullStr | Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title_short | Age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| title_sort | age, weight and decompression sickness in rats |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72585 |