[Involvement of adrenergic mechanisms in developing the nervous syndrome of high pressure and nitrogen narcosis]. / Uchastie adrenergicheskikh mekhanismov v razvitii nervnogo sindroma vysokikh davlenii i azotnogo narkoza.

Involvement of the adrenergic mediator system in central mechanisms of hyperbaric nitrogen narcosis or the high pressure nervous syndrome (NSHP) produced by nitrogen or heliox gas mixtures under increased pressure was studied in mice and rabbit experiments with the use of pharmacological substances-analyzers. Accumulated data are indicative of lack of a significant role of the adrenergic system in the NSHP genesis and a protective effect of activation of the central but not peripheric adrenergic mediation in development of the behavioural and electrophysiological symptomatics of nitrogen narcosis. Mechanisms of NSHP and nitrogen narcosis and possible principles of pharmacological correction are under discussion.

The effect of increased nitrogen pressure on motor activity and the intercentral relationships of the brain of monkeys.

The influence of increased nitrogen pressure up to 19 ata was investigated in chronic experiments on monkeys of a species of Javan macaques (Macaca irus) with electrodes implanted in cortical and subcortical regions of the brain. The phasic character of the changes of motor activity of the animals, an increase in the spectral density of the average power of the EEG in the range of frequencies from 4 to 20 Hz, and a disturbance in the connectedness of the electrogenesis of the reticular formation of the midbrain with the bioelectrical processes in the substantia nigra, the head of the caudate nucleus, and the frontal and motoric areas of the cortex were identified in the course of nitrogen compression at a rate of 1.0 ata per 1 min.