Diving bradycardia: a mechanism of defence against hypoxic damage

@article{Alboni2011DivingBA,
  title={Diving bradycardia: a mechanism of defence against hypoxic damage},
  author={Paolo Alboni and Marco Alboni and Lorella Gianfranchi},
  journal={Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine},
  year={2011},
  volume={12},
  pages={422–427},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21948366}
}
The results of several investigations carried out both in animals and in humans show that the diving response has an O2-conserving effect, both during exercise and at rest, thus lengthening the time to the onset of serious hypoxic damage.
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