Pharmasat: Drug dose dependence results from an autonomous microsystem-based small satellite in low earth orbit

Technical Digest - Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 110-113

  Ricco, A J ^a   Parra, M ^a   Piccini, M ^a   Ly, D ^a   Niesel, D ^b   McGinnis, M ^b   Kudlicki, A ^b   Hines, J W ^a   Timucin, L ^a   Beasley, C ^a   Ricks, R ^a   McIntyre, M ^a   Friedericks, C ^a   Henschke, M ^a   Leung, R ^a   Diaz Aguado, M ^a   Kitts, C ^c   Mas, I ^c   Rasay, R ^c   Agasid, E ^a   Luzzi, E ^a   Ronzano, K ^a   Squires, D ^a   Yost, B ^a   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BODY FLUIDS; DRUG DOSAGE; MICROSYSTEMS; ORBITS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SMALL SATELLITES; YEAST;

BIOANALYTICAL SYSTEMS; DOSE DEPENDENCES; LOW EARTH ORBITS; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; POPULATION DENSITIES; SENSOR SUBSYSTEMS; SPACE QUALIFIED;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 84866518533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.31438/trf.hh2010.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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