| Autor: |
J L, Garcia Alcon, J M, Moreno Vazquez, P, Mena Arias, M, Martinez Martinez, J E, Campillo Alvarez |
| Rok vydání: |
1990 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Aviation, space, and environmental medicine. 61(4) |
| ISSN: |
0095-6562 |
| Popis: |
The peripheral nervous system is highly sensitive to variations in the internal medium. A neurophysiological study (peripheral nervous conduction velocity) and an enzymatic study (catalase and glutathione-peroxidase) were performed in both instructor and student pilots. Pilots do not show the age-dependent decrease in the peripheral sensory nervous conduction velocity observed in non-pilot subject controls. The sensory conduction velocity (SCV) was significantly (p less than 0.01) increased when hours of flight experience increased, yielding a positive correlation (r = 0.6461; p = 0.0016). A significant (p less than 0.01) increase in the erythrocite catalase and glutathione-peroxidase activities were observed in pilots vs. controls. The present data suggest that a chronically increased oxygen consumption could be the reason for the increase in peripheral nervous conduction velocity observed in pilots. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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