title: Artificial gravity as a countermeasure of physiological deconditioning in space.
abstract: The displacement of humans from our planet to space and back to our planet or to another planet necessarily causes the exposure to transitional gravitational forces which create a need for countermeasures of physiological deconditioning.  One of the alternative approaches to counteracting physiological deconditioning is the simulation of a gravitational field.  An apparatus named the artificial gravity simulator (AGS) has been designed and constructed.  The AGS is a short radius rotating platform capable of producing a +Gz 100% gradient of a variable magnitude up to 3-g.  It supports four beds for testing four subjects at a time.  The AGS is suitable for short and long duration experiments on various physiological systems.  At present it is being used to study the cardiovascular response to various g-levels and exposure times.
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Houston, TX 77030-3405.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cardús
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: McTaggart
mesh_terms: D018493:Cardiovascular Deconditioning; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D002498:Centrifugation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D018470:Gravity, Altered; D006801:Humans; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D012399:Rotation; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013997:Time Factors; D014893:Weightlessness; D018544:Weightlessness Countermeasures