Spaceflight alters bone mechanics and modeling drifts in growing rats

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 720-726

  Vajda, E G ^a   Wronski, T J ^a   Halloran, B P ^a   Bachus, K N ^a   Miller, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical bone; Histomorphometry; Mechanical properties; Modeling; Rats; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GROWTH; BONE MASS; BONE REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR; GROWTH INHIBITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; YOUNG MODULUS;

NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 284071; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-78 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMUR; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHT-BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034890122     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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