Chapter 1 Survey of Studies on how Spaceflight Affects Rodent Skeletal Muscle

Advances in Space Biology and Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue C, 1999, Pages 1-30

  Fejtek, Monika B ^a   Wassersug, Richard J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COSMOS PROJECT; FEMALE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MANNED; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SHORT DURATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT; UNMANNED; WISTAR RAT;

COSMOS PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT; UNMANNED;

ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0033251183     PISSN: 15692574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-2574(08)60005-2     Document Type: Article

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