RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Hyperbaric Oxygen: Toxicity to Fish at Pressures Present in Their Swimbladders
JF Science
JO Science
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP 576
OP 578
DO 10.1126/science.163.3867.576-a
VO 163
IS 3867
A1 D'Aoust, Brian G.
YR 1969
UL http://science.sciencemag.org/content/163/3867/576.2.abstract
AB When juvenile Pacific rock-fish, Sebastodes miniatus, are exposed to oxygen tensions equal to those in their swimbladders, they exhibit symptoms characteristic of oxygen poisoning in mammals and ultimately die. Thus their central nervous system appears to be as sensitive to elevated oxygen pressure as that of higher vertebrates, whereas the cells of the gas gland tissue inside the swimbladder must be insensitive to the partial pressure of oxygen which they help to produce.