Human hibernation for space flight: Utopistic vision or realistic possibility?

JBIS - Journal British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 139-143

  Singer, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Hibernation; Hypometabolism; Hypothermia; Metabolic rate; Oxygen supply

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BODY SIZES; HIBERNATION; HYPOMETABOLISM; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MAMMALIAN HIBERNATION; METABOLIC RATES; METABOLIC REDUCTION;

HYPOTHERMIA; MAMMALS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PHYSIOLOGY;

METABOLISM;

EID: 33644893038     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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