Exposure to microgravity during space flight results in profound physiologic changes. Numerous studies have shown changes in circulating populations of peripheral blood immune cells immediately after space flight. It is currently unknown if these changes result from exposure to microgravity or are caused by the stress of reentry and readaptation to gravity. We have developed the whole blood staining device as a system for the staining of whole blood collected during space flight for subsequent flow cytometric analysis, This device contains all liquids to address safety issues concerned with space flight and also moves the cells through the staining, lyse/fixation and dilution steps.
Development of a Whole Blood Staining Device for use During Space Shuttle Flights
1999-08-01
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Chronology of space shuttle flights, 1981 - 2000
TIBKAT | 2000
|Heat Pipe Tests on Space Shuttle Flights
SAE Technical Papers | 1985
|Improved Whole-Blood-Staining Device
Online Contents | 2012
Shuttle orbiter ferry test flights begin
NTRS | 1977
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