Dose-dependent effects of hypergravity on body mass in mature rats

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 842-845

  Kita, Sayaka ^a   Shibata, Shigeki ^a   Kim, Hyeteok ^a   Otsubo, Akira ^a   Ito, Masao ^b   Iwasaki, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass; Centrifuge; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GRAVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRIFUGATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33747151592     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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