Calcium balance in mature male rats with unloaded hindlimbs

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 483-488

  Navidi, Meena ^a   Evans, Juliann ^a   Wolinsky, Ira ^b   Arnaud, Sara B ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D; Calcium absorption; Growth; Parathyroid hormone; Skeletal unloading; Tail suspension

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM BALANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FLIGHT; HINDLIMB; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SKELETON; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM, DIETARY; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; HOMEOSTASIS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442665413     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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