Interdependence of decompression sickness and plasma enzymes on dive profile and vitamin B-6 status.

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.

• Authors: V Frattali, M Quesada, R Robertson
• Journal: Aviation, space, and environmental medicine (Aviat Space Environ Med) Vol. 48 Issue 1 Pg. 29-32 (Jan 1977) ISSN: 0095-6562 [Print] United States
• PMID: 831709 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
• Aspartate Aminotransferases
• Alanine Transaminase
• Creatine Kinase

Topics

• Alanine Transaminase (blood)
• Animals
• Aspartate Aminotransferases (blood)
• Creatine Kinase (blood)
• Decompression Sickness (complications, enzymology, mortality)
• L-Lactate Dehydrogenase (blood)
• Rats
• Submarine Medicine
• Vitamin B 6 Deficiency (complications, enzymology)