Interventions to prevent bone loss in astronauts during space flight

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 55-59

  Iwamoto, Jun ^a   Takeda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sato, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Mitate Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone formation; Bone resorption; Calcium; Microgravity; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; FARNOQUINONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM BALANCE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CANCELLOUS BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; COSMONAUT; DRUG POTENCY; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PELVIS; RAT; REVIEW; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINE; URINARY EXCRETION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANIMALS; ASTRONAUTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE RESORPTION; CALCIUM; CALCIUM, DIETARY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DIPHOSPHONATES; ENERGY INTAKE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RATS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SPACE FLIGHT; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN K; VITAMIN K 2; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 21744442730     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.54.55     Document Type: Review

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