Musculoskeletal adaptations to weightlessness and development of effective countermeasures

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1247-1253

  Baldwin, Kenneth M ^b   White, Timothy P ^a   Arnaud, Sara B ^b   Edgerton, V Reggie ^b   Kraemer, William J ^b   Kram, Rodger ^b   Raab Cullen, Diane ^b   Snow, Christine M ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

BONE ADAPTATIONS; BONE MINERAL DENSITY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOCALIZED BONE LOSS; MUSCLE ADAPTATIONS; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; RAT; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SKELETAL MUSCLE ATROPHY

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; SPACE FLIGHT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 26-10; NASA PROGRAM SPACE PHYSIOLOGY AND COUNTERMEASURES; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BONE AND BONES; EXERCISE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0029860043     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

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