Hypercapnia

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High levels of c o twoa, a marker of inflammation, can cause problems in space. The high pressure environment is part of the training for an astronaut to live in deep space. "We think that these environments that will sustain life" could be altered by hyper capnia. It's altering a lot of different, different things.

Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He is also a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His laboratory develops and tests metabolic-based strategies for targeting CNS oxygen toxicity (seizures), epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, brain cancer and metastatic cancer.