Comparison on hyper- and microgravity on rat muscle, organ weights and selected plasma constituents

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Vasques, Marilyn ^a   Lang, Chi ^a   Grindeland, Richard E ^a   Roy, Roland R ^b   Daunton, Nancy ^a   Bigbee, Allison J ^a   Wade, Charles E ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLASMA; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL;

COSMOS 2044 PROJECT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; SHORT DURATION; UNMANNED;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PHYSIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRIFUGATION; GRAVITATION; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE FLIGHT; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7144226567     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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