title: 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.
mesh_terms: D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000818:Animals; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000097:blood; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000150:complications / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000401:mortality; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000097:blood; D051381:Rats; D013366:Submarine Medicine; D026681:Vitamin B 6 Deficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; D003402:Creatine Kinase