On how whales avoid decompression sickness and why they sometimes strand
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On how whales avoid decompression sickness and why they sometimes strand.
Whales are unique in that the supply of blood to the brain is not by the internal carotid arteries, but by way of thoracic and intra-vertebral arterial retia. We found in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) that these retia split up into smaller anastomosing vessels and thin-walled sinusoid structures that are embedded in fat. The solubility of nitrogen is at least six times larger in fat t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.087577