title: Measurement of the partial oxygen pressure and oxygen utilization in the skin of cosmonauts aboard Salyut 6.
abstract: The oxygen tension (PO2) in the dorsal skin surface of the forearm was studied during the stay of cosmonauts on board Salyut 6. Between the fourth and fifth day of stay on the orbital station a considerable reduction of the PO2 level was observed. The oxygen utilization values were also reduced. In the early postflight period the low PO2 level persisted with gradual normalization.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biophysics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vacek
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kovalenko
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Bobrovnickij
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sarol
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haase
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartonickova
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rotkovska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kovar
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology*; D010313:Partial Pressure; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen