Changes in intervertebral disc cross-sectional area with bed rest and space flight

Spine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 812-817

  Leblanc, Adrian D ^a   Wendt, Richard E ^b   Schneider, Victor S ^c   Hedrick, Thomas D ^b  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed rest; Dise Size; MHI; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER HQS; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BED REST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0028203017     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199404000-00015     Document Type: Article

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