Effects of microgravity on muscle and cerebral cortex: A suggested interaction

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 235-244

  D'Amelio, F ^a   Fox, R A ^a   Wu, L C ^a   Daunton, N G ^b   Corcoran, M L ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NON-NASA CENTER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SHORT DURATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE FLIGHT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UNMANNED; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WISTAR RAT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; SHORT DURATION; UNMANNED;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0032243799     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(98)80015-X     Document Type: Article

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