Sports-related lung injury during breath-hold diving

T Mijacika, Z Dujic - European respiratory review, 2016 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The number of people practising recreational breath-hold diving is constantly growing,
thereby increasing the need for knowledge of the acute and chronic effects such a sport could …

Examination of a new delivery approach for oral cannabidiol in healthy subjects: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled pharmacokinetics study

A Patrician, M Versic-Bratincevic, T Mijacika, I Banic… - Advances in …, 2019 - Springer
… Blood pressure and cerebral artery velocity and conductance at peak concentration with
90 mg doses were evaluated using a paired Student's t-test. Haematological measures, urine …

Surviving without oxygen: how low can the human brain go?

…, DK DeMasi, A Andrijanic, T Mijacika… - … altitude medicine & …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
… Tanja Mijacika … c Different (p < 0.05) between disciplines assessed by independent
samples t-tests following confirmation of distribution normality (Shapiro–Wilk W tests). …

Acute heat stress reduces biomarkers of endothelial activation but not macro-or microvascular dysfunction in cervical spinal cord injury

…, OF Barak, AA Phillips, T Mijacika… - American Journal …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are highly prevalent in spinal cord injury (SCI), and peripheral
vascular dysfunction might be a contributing factor. Recent evidence demonstrates that …

[HTML][HTML] Disturbed blood flow worsens endothelial dysfunction in moderate-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

…, JC Tremblay, SR Thom, M Yang, T Mijacika… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The aims of this study were: (1) to test whether oscillatory shear stress further exacerbates
endothelial dysfunction in patients with moderate-severe COPD, and (2) to test whether low …

Hypercapnia is essential to reduce the cerebral oxidative metabolism during extreme apnea in humans

…, RL Hoiland, I Drvis, T Mijacika… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO 2 ) is reduced during apnea that yields
profound hypoxia and hypercapnia. In this study, to dissociate the impact of hypoxia and …

Wavelet decomposition analysis is a clinically relevant strategy to evaluate cerebrovascular buffering of blood pressure after spinal cord injury

…, OF Barak, GB Coombs, T Mijacika… - American Journal …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
… The time index t 0 moving along a time series extracts local features of the signal x(t) . The …
where ϕ BC is the wavelet-based phase difference between MAP and P E T C O 2 and ψ CM …

Ventilation inhibits sympathetic action potential recruitment even during severe chemoreflex stress

MB Badrov, OF Barak, T Mijacika… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
This study investigated the influence of ventilation on sympathetic action potential (AP)
discharge patterns during varying levels of high chemoreflex stress. In seven trained breath-hold …

Vascular dysfunction following breath-hold diving

OF Barak, N Janjic, I Drvis, T Mijacika… - Canadian journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The pathogenesis of predominantly neurological decompression sickness (DCS) is multifactorial.
In SCUBA diving, besides gas bubbles, DCS has been linked to microparticle release, …

Organ perfusion during voluntary pulmonary hyperinflation; a magnetic resonance imaging study

…, O Barak, T Mijacika, T Engstrøm… - American Journal …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Pulmonary hyperinflation is used by competitive breath-hold divers and is accomplished by
glossopharyngeal insufflation (GPI), which is known to compress the heart and pulmonary …