Effects of an eight-day space flight on microvibration and physiological tremor

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 1 42-1, 1997, Pages

  Gallasch, E ^a   Moser, M ^a   Kozlovskaya, I B ^b   Kenner, T ^a   Noordergraaf, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistocardiogram; Muscle tone; Resonance phenomena; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOGRAPHY; COSMONAUT; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE TONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; TREMOR; VIBRATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0030737939     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.1.r86     Document Type: Article

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