Effect of microgravity on immune cell viability and proliferation

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 85-90

  Martinelli, Leonardo ^a   Russomano, Thais ^a,b   Dos Santos, Marlise ^a,b   Falcao, Felipe ^a,b   Bauer, Moises ^a   MacHado, Amanda ^c   Sundaresan, Alamelu ^d,e  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b MicroG Centre

^c MicroG Centre ^*

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 68049108324     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2009.933572     Document Type: Article

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