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To: ddoolett@me*.ad*.ed*.au*
Subject: Re: Doppler & Neuro Networks
From: shelps@ac*.ma*.ad*.ed*.au* (Prime Rat)
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:11:19 +0930
>you aren't seriously trying to make us believe that the complement system
>promotes bubble nucleation and growth.  Next you'll say it is due to
>endogenous NO or CO.  Get a grip on reality.

Well, as usual, David Doolette has gone for the barely credible physical 
explanation for a neurological phenonema. 

As any fool knows, bubbles can be found in the circulation after almost any 
dysbaric exposure (if you are in any doubt, read 'techdiver@opal.com').  
Therefore if you get sick it follows that something about the bubbles is bad 
for you.

What could that be?

Whatabout the milieu the bubbles find themselves in.  Perhaps something 
happens to the blood after it has been exposed to a gas/liquid surface?  Cut 
youself and see if the blood clots.  Drain some blood into a beaker and 
shake it up.  It clots.  

So you get all get bubbles but you don't all get sick.

>endogenous NO or CO.  Get a grip on reality.

Who brought up anything about NO or CO?  Next you will be telling us that 
the ultrasonic waves from the Doppler device will cause cavitation and 
bubble formation in the cerebral circulation, ie, Doppler testing always 
finds bubbles becasue it causes bubbles!

Kind regards

/Rat


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