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Fig. 4. Study 2. The relative vital capacity (mean ± s.e.m.) of animals breathing a 5% hypercapnic-anoxic or normoxia gas for a 3 min period at 1 week, 2 weeks, 2 months and 6 months after the surgery (trials 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively). S Fast, fasting sham operated alligators; S PP, post-prandial sham operated alligators; D Fast and D PP, alligators that had the diaphragmaticus muscle transected, and were in the fasting and post-prandial state, respectively. {dagger}Significant difference (P≤0.05, t-test) between fasting and post-prandial states within the sham group (N=3); {ddagger}significant difference (P≤0.05; t-test) between fasting and post-prandial states within the experimental group (N=3); *significant difference between experimental and control alligators (P≤0.05, t-test) during post-prandial treatment.





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