Microbial responses to microgravity and other low-shear environments

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 345-361

  Nickerson, Cheryl A ^a   Ott, C Mark ^b   Wilson, James W ^a   Ramamurthy, Rajee ^a   Pierson, Duane L ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOREACTOR; CELL MEMBRANE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; RPOS GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHEAR STRESS; SPACE FLIGHT; YEAST;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOREACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 2942532125     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.2.345-361.2004     Document Type: Review

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