Increases in body mass of rats during spaceflight: Models and measurements

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 11 I, 2000, Pages 1126-1130

  Wade, C E ^a   Ortiz, R M ^a   Baer, L A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; Centrifugation; Hypergravity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; GRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; CENTRIFUGATION; HYPERGRAVITY; HYPOGRAVITY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033751659     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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