Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
For a determination of how the nonweight-bearing skeletons, i.e., lower jaws, of 41-day and 1-year old rats would respond to 10 or 14 days of partial skeletal unloading by elevating the hindquarters (PULEH), an experimental system to simulate the fluid shifts and unloading of portions of the skeleton which occur during spaceflight was developed. In comparison with the bone matrix mineralization recorded in the mandibles of rats flown in the Soviet 18.5 day Cosmos-1129 mission, the PULEH studies failed to produce spaceflight-like maturation defects.
Keywords:
LIFE SCIENCES (GENERAL)
Type:
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine (ISSN 0095-0562); 54; 1080-108
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