Long-term effects of microgravity on the swimming behaviour of young rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 565, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 609-626

  Walton, Kerry D ^a,b   Benavides, Louis ^a   Singh, Neeraj ^a   Hatoum, Nagi ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Physiology and Neuroscience ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; MICROGRAVITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; ADAPTATION; FLOATING; GRAVITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR CONTROL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

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

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; JOINTS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE FLIGHT; SWIMMING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 21044439583     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.074393     Document Type: Article

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