The Hindlimb Unloading Rat Model: Literature Overview, Technique Update and Comparison with Space Flight Data

Advances in Space Biology and Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2005, Pages 7-40

  Morey Holton, Emily ^a   Globus, Ruth K ^a   Kaplansky, Alexander ^b   Durnova, Galina ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FEMALE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNMANNED;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL;

COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; SHORT DURATION; UNMANNED;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 24044527149     PISSN: 15692574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-2574(05)10002-1     Document Type: Review

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