How the Science and Engineering of spaceflight contribute to understanding the plasticity of spinal cord injury

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-62

  Edgerton, V Reggie ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Hodgson, John A ^a   Day, M Kathleen ^a   Weiss, James ^c   Harkema, Susan J ^a,b   Dobkin, Bruce ^a,b   Garfinkel, Alan ^a   Konigsberg, E ^d   Koslovskaya, Inessa ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Konigsberg Instruments Inc   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PLASTICITY;

GRAVITATIONAL BIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

SPACE FLIGHT;

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CAT; GOVERNMENT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NON-NASA CENTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0034214832     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(00)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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