Reduction of pituitary AVP and OT contents in rats following spaceflight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Wade, Charles E ^a,b   Keil, Lanny C ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY;

COSMOS 1887 PROJECT; COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-51B SHUTTLE PROJECT; UNMANNED;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; HYPERGRAVITY; HYPOGRAVITY; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PITUITARY GLAND; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; VASOPRESSINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031778019     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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