Space cycle: A human-powered centrifuge that can be used for hypergravity resistance training

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-9

  Yang, Yifan ^a   Kaplan, Adam ^a   Pierre, Mark ^c   Adams, Greg ^b   Cavanagh, Peter ^c   Takahashi, Craig ^b   Kreitenberg, Art ^a   Hicks, James ^a   Keyak, Joyce ^a   Caiozzo, Vince ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial gravity; Atrophy; Foot forces; Short arm centrifuge; Skeletal muscle; Space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MOTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; CENTRIFUGATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY, ALTERED; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES;

EID: 33846085645     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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