Cardiovascular deconditioning and venous air embolism in simulated microgravity in the rat

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 835-840

  Robinson, R R ^a   Doursout, M F ^a   Chelly, J E ^a   Powell, M R ^b   Little, T M ^a   Butler, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 04-10; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 70-10; NASA PROGRAM DATA ANALYSIS; NASA PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DECONDITIONING; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FLUID SHIFTS; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG COMPLIANCE; RATS; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0029758803     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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