Dysfunctional vestibular system causes a blood pressure drop in astronauts returning from space

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hallgren, Emma ^a   Migeotte, Pierre François ^b   Kornilova, Ludmila ^c   Deliere, Quentin ^b   Fransen, Erik ^a   Glukhikh, Dmitrii ^c   Moore, Steven T ^d   Clement, Gilles ^e   Diedrich, Andre ^f   MacDougall, Hamish ^g   Wuyts, Floris L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COSMONAUT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; SPACE FLIGHT; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULE; ADULT; BODY POSITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; VISION;

ADULT; ASTRONAUTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; SPACE FLIGHT; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84950152001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17627     Document Type: Article

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