Skeletal alterations in rats during space flight.
Male Wistar rats were placed in orbit for an 18.5 day period aboard the Soviet Cosmos 1129 biological satellite.  The skeletal changes which occurred during space flight were a reduced rate of periosteal bone formation in the tibial and humeral diaphyses, a decreased trabecular bone volume, and an increased fat content of the bone marrow in the proximal tibial metaphysis.
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NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000378:metabolism; D018483:Diaphyses / Q000503:physiopathology; D006811:Humerus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013026:Space Flight; D013977:Tibia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects*