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Colonic Fermentation Promotes Decompression sickness in Rats.


ABSTRACT: Massive bubble formation after diving can lead to decompression sickness (DCS). During dives with hydrogen as a diluent for oxygen, decreasing the body's H2 burden by inoculating hydrogen-metabolizing microbes into the gut reduces the risk of DCS. So we set out to investigate if colonic fermentation leading to endogenous hydrogen production promotes DCS in fasting rats. Four hours before an experimental dive, 93 fasting rats were force-fed, half of them with mannitol and the other half with water. Exhaled hydrogen was measured before and after force-feeding. Following the hyperbaric exposure, we looked for signs of DCS. A higher incidence of DCS was found in rats force-fed with mannitol than in those force-fed with water (80%, [95%CI 56, 94] versus 40%, [95%CI 19, 64], p?

SUBMITTER: de Maistre S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4745042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Colonic Fermentation Promotes Decompression sickness in Rats.

de Maistre Sébastien S   Vallée Nicolas N   Gempp Emmanuel E   Lambrechts Kate K   Louge Pierre P   Duchamp Claude C   Blatteau Jean-Eric JE  

Scientific reports 20160208


Massive bubble formation after diving can lead to decompression sickness (DCS). During dives with hydrogen as a diluent for oxygen, decreasing the body's H2 burden by inoculating hydrogen-metabolizing microbes into the gut reduces the risk of DCS. So we set out to investigate if colonic fermentation leading to endogenous hydrogen production promotes DCS in fasting rats. Four hours before an experimental dive, 93 fasting rats were force-fed, half of them with mannitol and the other half with wate  ...[more]

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