Parabolic maneuvers of the Swiss Air Force fighter jet F-5E as a research platform for cell culture experiments in microgravity

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 68, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1729-1741

  Studer, Marc ^a,b   Bradacs, Gesine ^a,c   Hilliger, Andre ^d,e   Hürlimann, Eva ^a   Engeli, Stephanie ^a   Thiel, Cora S ^f   Zeitner, Peter ^g   Denier, Beat ^h   Binggeli, Markus ⁱ   Syburra, Thomas ^j   Egli, Marcel ^k,l   Engelmann, Frank ^d,e   Ullrich, Oliver ^a,c,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Air Force   (Switzerland)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^e KEK GmbH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g RUAG Aerospace   (Switzerland)

^h ARMASUISSE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Meiringen Air Base Command   (Switzerland)

^j TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^k ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Bone system; Immune system; Microgravity; Parabolic flights; Space flight

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TIME; AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTROL PHASE; CULTURED HUMAN CELL; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FIGHTER JETS; HUMAN CELLS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LONG-TERM SENSITIVITY; LYSIS BUFFER; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH; MILITARY TRAINING; MOLECULAR LEVELS; OPERATED SYSTEMS; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; PRIMARY EFFECTS; REDUCED GRAVITY; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; RETRIEVAL TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS; SPACE MISSIONS; STATE OF THE ART; SWISS AIR FORCE;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BONE; CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAMMALS; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SHUTTLES; TOOLS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79955474498     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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