Does altered blood flow to bone in microgravity impact on mechanotransduction?

Journal of Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interactions

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-326

  Bloomfield, Susan A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Microspheres; Perfusion pressure; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BED REST; BODY POSTURE; BONE BLOOD FLOW; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; BONE MINERAL; CORTICAL BONE; COSMONAUT; EXERCISE; FEMUR; FLUID SHIFT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LOADING TEST; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METAPHYSIS; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OSCILLATION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; RUNNING; SPACE FLIGHT; TIBIA; TISSUE PRESSURE; TREADMILL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BONE AND BONES; FLUID SHIFTS; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 33846240336     PISSN: 11087161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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