The nutritional status of astronauts is altered after long-term space flight aboard the International Space Station

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 437-443

  Smith, Scott M ^a   Zwart, Sara R ^a   Block, Gladys ^b   Rice, Barbara L ^c   Davis Street, Janis E ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Enterprise Advisory Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone resorption; Humans; Nutritional status; Space flight; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CALCIFEDIOL; FERRITIN; IRON; MINERAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFERRIN; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BONE METABOLISM; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON METABOLISM; MALE; MINERAL BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPACE FLIGHT; URINE LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 14944340214     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/135.3.437     Document Type: Article

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