Environmental stressors during space flight: potential effects on body temperature.
1. Organisms may be affected by many environmental factors during space flight, e.g., acceleration, weightlessness, decreased pressure, changes in oxygen tension, radiofrequency radiation and vibration. 2. Previous studies of change in body temperature--one response to these environmental factors--are reviewed. 3. Conditions leading to heat stress and hypothermia are discussed.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058.
D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature; D006801:Humans; D013026:Space Flight; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology*