Biomedical aspects of artificial gravity.
Artificial gravitv generated by spacecraft rotation may prove a universal countermeasure against adverse effects of weightlessness in the future. The paper summarizes the results of ground-based biomedical investigations of artificial gravity and flight experiments aboard Soviet biosatellites Cosmos-782 and Cosmos-936. It is believed that at the present stage the major goal of such investigations is to determine the minimum efficient value of artificial gravity in long-term flights which may eliminate adverse effects of prolonged weightlessness. In ground-bound studies the highest priority should be given to the development of methods on increasing human tolerance to the rotating environment.
Shipov
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Institute of Biomedical Problems, USSR Ministry of Health, Moscow.
Kotovskaya
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Galle
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000818:Animals; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D004068:Digestive System Physiological Phenomena; D004285:Dogs; D005399:Fishes; D018470:Gravity, Altered; D006801:Humans; D009142:Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; D051381:Rats; D012399:Rotation; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation; D014426:Turtles / Q000502:physiology; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects*; D018544:Weightlessness Countermeasures