Effect of penetrating radiation on skeletal muscles of rats in weightlessness.
The isoenzyme composition of lactate dehydrogenase of soleus and plantaris muscles of rats flown for 20.5 d aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 and irradiated with a dose of 800 rad was investigated. The muscles exposed to weightlessness per se and weightlessness combined with radiation showed similar changes in their carbohydrate metabolism. On return to 1 G, readaptation of irradiated rats developed less rapidly than of animals exposed to weightlessness alone.
D000818:Animals; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects*; D051381:Rats; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness
D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase