ASSOCIATION OF MICROPARTICLES AND NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION WITH 1 DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS 2 3 Stephen

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine 10 Baltimore MD, Dept. of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, New 11 South Wales, Australia, Dept. of Hyperbaric Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, 12 Western Australia, Dept. of Hyperbaric Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 13 Dept.of Emergency Medicine, The Townsville Hospital and College of Marine and 14 Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 15 Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Omrade2, Gothenburg, Sweden, Divers Alert Network, 16 Durham, NC, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Split School of Medicine, 17 Soltanska, Split, Croatia, Divers Alert Network Europe Foundation and Diving Safety 18 Laboratory, Environmental, Occupational, Ageing and Integrative Physiology Laboratory, 19 Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak, Brussels, Belgium, Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, 20 Military Hospital Brussels, Bruynstraat 200, Brussels 1120, Belgium, Dept. of Emergency 21 Medicine, Pereleman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 22 23 Running Title: Microparticles and decompression 24 25