The mission of the Life Science Division at the NASA Ames Research Center is to investigate the effects of gravity on living systems in the spectrum from cells to humans. The range of these investigations is from microgravity, as experienced in space, to Earth's gravity, and hypergravity. Exposure to microgravity causes many physiological changes in humans and other mammals including a headward shift of body fluids, atrophy of muscles - especially the large muscles of the legs - and changes in bone and mineral metabolism. The high cost and limited opportunity for research experiments in space create a need to perform ground based simulation experiments on Earth. Models that simulate microgravity are used to help identify and quantify these changes, to investigate the mechanisms causing these changes and, in some cases, to develop countermeasures.


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    Titel :

    Development of life sciences equipment for microgravity and hypergravity simulation


    Beteiligte:
    Mulenburg, G. M. (Autor:in) / Evans, J. (Autor:in) / Vasques, M. (Autor:in) / Gundo, D. P. (Autor:in) / Griffith, J. B. (Autor:in) / Harper, J. (Autor:in) / Skundberg, T. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1994-11-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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