Spaceflight alters the fiber composition of the aortic nerve in the developing rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 819-829

  Yamasaki, M ^a   Shimizu, T ^a   Katahira, K ^a   Waki, H ^b   Nagayama, T ^a   O Ishi, H ^a   Katsuda, S ^a   Miyake, M ^a   Miyamoto, Y ^a   Wago, H ^a   Okouchi, T ^a   Matsumoto, S ^c  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

baroreceptor reflex; microgravity; myelinated fibers; myelination; Sprague Dawley rat; unmyelinated fibers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA NERVE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 9301034;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-90 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AORTA; AXONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 4644292369     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.07.022     Document Type: Article

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