Nutrition beyond nutrition: Plausibility of immunotrophic nutrition for space travel

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-238

  Kulkarni, A D ^a   Yamauchi, K ^a   Hales, N W ^a   Ramesh, V ^a   Ramesh, G T ^b   Sundaresan, A ^c   Andrassy, R J ^a   Pellis, N R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d JSC/NASA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunity; Nucleotide; Nutrition; Space travel

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; NUCLEOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; RNA; URACIL; URIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICROGRAVITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPLEEN CELL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; SPLEEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; IMMUNITY; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RNA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPLEEN; URACIL; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0036022702     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/clnu.2002.0539     Document Type: Article

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