Prevention of Decompression Sickness by the Agarose Gel Technique

Visualization of Horse Sickness virus by the Fluorescent antibody technique

Identification of specific plasma proteins determining the agarose gel electrophoresis by the immunosubtraction technique.

The immunosubtraction technique was used to identify the proteins in electrophoretically separated plasma. The technique consists of forcing the plasma through a layer of monospecific antibody purified by electrophoresis; the specific protein is thereby precipitated and is consequently absent from the subsequent electrophoretogram. This technique was successfully applied to the following protei...

Brain multi-infarct and decompression sickness

Scuba diving is associated with an important risk of devel­oping decompression sickness secondary to formation of gas bubbles inside the body. The latter is formed mainly by nitrogen in the body on the diver’s way to the surface (1,2). In some cases, it might injure the central nervous system. Several decompression cases that have been asso­ciated with neurologic symptoms are described in the l...

Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy precipitated by decompression sickness.

Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) is a relatively common problem after middle age,'-3 and is characterised by pain, segmental sensory disturbance, and motor deficits in the upper limbs. In acute cases, neck pain and stiffness are often present, and exertion or neck injury is the usual preceding event. We report a case ofCSR precipitated by decompression sickness (DCS), which we believe h...

Goodbye Decompression Sickness

by T.J.R. Francis, D.J. Smith and J.J. W. Sykes, Institute of Naval Medicine, Hampshire, England. The current means by which we classify decompression sickness dates back only 30 years to the experience gained during the construction of the Dartford Tunnel in London. Golding et al [1] proposed a system for decompression sickness based upon perceived severity of the cases which arose in the cais...