Sentence examples for diving response from inspiring English sources

This diving response, commonly called diving bradycardia (bradycardia means slow heart rate), is a well-studied phenomenon.

In addition, the cooler the water, the greater the diving response, potentially leading to a lower heart rate and higher blood pressure.

Current projects include 1) cellular and physiological consequences of chronic stress in marine mammals, 2) cellular mechanisms underlying the diving response and 3) role of peroxiredoxin 6 in acute and chronic inflammation.

In addition, the 'ramp-up' procedure elicited immediate diving response, similar to the onset of treatment without a 'ramp-up', but the fish did not swim away from the sound source as expected.

We tested the anxiolytic effect of nicotine on the novelty-elicited diving response and subsequent habituation.

The diving response is vital to marine mammals such as seals and dolphins, but humans have it too.

Both the cold shock and diving responses are triggered by receptors in the skin – nerve endings of the autonomic system.

Both the cold shock and diving responses relay sensory information (via the brain) to the heart, but their messages contradict each other.

He calls this 'autonomic conflict' because both the cold shock and diving responses send signals to the heart via nerves that control involuntary body functions (including breathing), the autonomic nervous system.

"These are all relatively young, fit individuals who are also having a problem with sudden cardiac death". Autonomic conflict between the cold shock and diving responses might also be behind fatalities where cause of death has been misdiagnosed as hypothermia or drowning, because the electrical disturbances that lead to arrhythmia can't be detected in post-mortem examinations.

The response between diving enterprises varied between no response at all to 100% (average, 16%).