Reduced gravity evaluation of potential spaceflight-compatible flow cytometer technology

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Crucian, Brian ^a   Sams, Clarence ^b  

^a WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow cytometer; Spaceflight; Zero gravity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIODE LASER; EVALUATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYPOGRAVITY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; SPACE FLIGHT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 20544451111     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.20057     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Reduced Gravity Research Division. Reduced gravity fluid physics discipline brochure; 1997. Available at: http://mgnews.msfc.nasa.gov/db/fluid-phys.pdf (PDF document) or http://mgnews.msfc.nasa.gov/db/fluids/fluids.html (HTML document).
2. Crucian B, Norman J, Brentz J, Pietrzyk R, Sams C. Laboratory outreach: student assessment of flow cytometer fluidics in zero-gravity. Lab Med 2000;31:569-572.
3. Sams CF, Crucian BE, Clift VL, Meinelt EM. Development of a whole blood staining device for use during space shuttle flights. Cytometry 1999;37:74-80.
4. Stowe RP, Sams CF, Mehta SK, Kaur I, Jones ML, Feeback DL, Pierson DL. Leukocyte subsets and neutrophil function after short-term spaceflight. J Leukoc Biol 1999;65:179-186.
5. Crucian BE, Cubbage ML, Sams CF. Altered cytokine production by specific human peripheral blood cell subsets immediately following space flight. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2000;20:547-556.