Weightlessness during spaceflight results in enhanced synapse formation in a fish brain vestibular nucleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-16

  Ibsch, Michael ^a   Anken, Ralf H ^a   Rahmann, Hinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area octavolateralis; Brain nucleus; Compensation; Lateral line; Microgravity; Spaceflight; Synaptic plasticity; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FISH; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MICROGRAVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-90 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BRAIN STEM; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; SPACE FLIGHT; SYNAPSES; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0034672293     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01594-9     Document Type: Article

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