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Endocrine Responses to Elevated Ambient Pressure

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Environmental Endocrinology

Part of the book series: Proceedings in Life Sciences ((LIFE SCIENCES))

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The hyperbaric environment represents an extraordinary situation, in which essentially all environmental parameters are artificially changed. Exposure to hyperbaric conditions exposes an organism to an environment in which all parameters are different from those encountered in the normal atmospheric surroundings, and even those parameters that are nominally maintained at the same levels encountered under normal atmospheric conditions are altered in physiologic terms. Such features must always be kept in mind in evaluating physiologic effects observed under hyperbaric conditions, and great caution must be exercised in attributing an observed effect to a change in a specific environmental parameter.

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  1. University of Montpellier, France

    Ivan Assenmacher MD, DSc (Professor of Physiology) (Professor of Physiology)

  2. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Donald S. Farner PhD, DSc (Professor of Zoology) (Professor of Zoology)

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Weihl, A.C. (1978). Endocrine Responses to Elevated Ambient Pressure. In: Assenmacher, I., Farner, D.S. (eds) Environmental Endocrinology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66981-1_43

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