The mice drawer system (MDS) experiment and the space endurance record-breaking mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Cancedda, Ranieri ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Ruggiu, Alessandra ^a   Tavella, Sara ^a   Biticchi, Roberta ^a   Santucci, Daniela ^b   Schwartz, Silvia ^b   Ciparelli, Paolo ^c   Falcetti, Giancarlo ^c   Tenconi, Chiara ^c   Cotronei, Vittorio ^d   Pignataro, Salvatore ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLEIOTROPHIN;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MICE DRAWER SYSTEM; MICROGRAVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPACE FLIGHT; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BONE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; TIME; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 84861541128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032243     Document Type: Article

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