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Diving Reflex

Known as: Reflex, Diving, dive reflex, reflex dive 
BREATH HOLDING; VASOCONSTRICTION; and a drop in HEART RATE in response to submersion of the face in cold water.
National Institutes of Health

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Mammalian Diving Reflex

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Reflex actionReflex motion descriptor
aspects of radiation effectsdiving/swimmingphysiological aspects

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Review
2016
Review
2016
Central neural control of the cardiovascular system: current perspectives.
This brief review, which is based on a lecture presented at the American Physiological Society Teaching Refresher Course on the… 
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Exercise at depth alters bradycardia and incidence of cardiac anomalies in deep-diving marine mammals
Unlike their terrestrial ancestors, marine mammals routinely confront extreme physiological and physical challenges while breath… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Coral Triangle
Repeated exposure and flooding of the Sunda and Sahul shelves during Pleistocene sea‐level fluctuations is thought to have… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Scuba diver behaviour and the management of diving impacts on coral reefs
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Multiorgan dysfunction in infants with post-asphyxial hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
Background: Multiorgan dysfunction (MOD) is one of four consensus based criteria for the diagnosis of intrapartum asphyxia. The… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) as predators of mosquito larvae (Culicidae) in field experiments and in laboratory tests of prey preference.
Field experiments were performed in artificial ponds to evaluate how the density of predatory diving beetles (Dytiscidae) would… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Immersion, near-drowning and drowning.
or death. However, pulmonary complications may follow aspiration of water without cessation of breathing or loss of consciousness… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
The cold face test (diving reflex) in clinical autonomic assessment: methodological considerations and repeatability of responses.
1. Cold stimulus applied to the face causes bradycardia and peripheral vasoconstriction (i.e. the diving reflex), and has been… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
RELATIVE EFFICACY OF VARIOUS PHYSICAL MANOEUVRES IN THE TERMINATION OF JUNCTIONAL TACHYCARDIA
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Hemoglobin concentrations and blood gas tensions of free-diving Weddell seals.
Arterial blood gas tensions, pH, and hemoglobin concentrations were measured in four free-diving Weddell seals Leptonychotes… 
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