Disease relevance of Inert Gas Narcosis

• Lithium effects: protection against nitrogen narcosis, potentiation of HPNS [1].
• The use of special nitrogen-oxygen mixtures ("nitrox", 60% nitrogen and 40% oxygen as the typical example) decreases the probability of nitrogen narcosis and probably bubble formation, at the cost of increased risk of oxygen toxicity [2].

Psychiatry related information on Inert Gas Narcosis

• It is known that inert gas narcosis slows both reaction time (RT) and the event-related brain potential P300 in a correlated and dose-dependent manner [3].

High impact information on Inert Gas Narcosis

• The objectives were to determine the effects of either slow or rapid rates of compression, and either 5% or 10% (by volume) nitrogen in Heliox, on the presence of h.p.n.s. or nitrogen narcosis [4].
• Inert gas narcosis induces a decrease of the dopamine release at the striatum level, structure involved in the regulation of the extrapyramidal motricity [5].
• Nitrous oxide (N2O) effects were evaluated, as a behavioural model of inert gas narcosis, in rats performing a vigilance task in which they were required to respond to a slight luminous increment of the house-light [6].
• EEG patterns associated with nitrogen narcosis (breathing air at 9 ATA) [7].
• Nitrogen narcosis and ethyl alcohol increase the gain of the vestibular ocular reflex [8].

Chemical compound and disease context of Inert Gas Narcosis

• Effects of ethanol and amphetamine on inert gas narcosis in humans [9].
• In addition, the trimix group was impaired because of nitrogen narcosis [10].

Biological context of Inert Gas Narcosis

• Nitrous oxide does not appear to benefit emotional or physiological adaptation to nitrogen narcosis associated with breathing hyperbaric air, and may even impair emotional adaptation, at least under these experimental conditions [11].

Gene context of Inert Gas Narcosis

• P300 latency indexes nitrogen narcosis [12].
• We investigated the effect of brief, repetitive exposures to 5.5 ATA (148 fsw) in a hyperbaric chamber on adaptation to nitrogen narcosis [13].

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