title: [PHYSIOLAB project for CASSIOPEE:  the space cardiovascular exploratory laboratory].
abstract: The French Health Defense Service is concerned by the finalization and the implementation of the PHYSIOLAB laboratory.  In July 1996, PHYSIOLAB will participate to the french--russian mission CASSIOPEE.  It is a functional exploratory laboratory which will support a programm of scientific experiments whose aim is to better understand cardiovascular deconditioning under weightlessness and to implement medical monitoring of cosmonauts during next french-russian space missions.  In this paper, functional and scientific aims, and structure of PHYSIOLAB are described.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Louisy
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D018493:Cardiovascular Deconditioning / Q000502:physiology*; D005602:France; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories; D012107:Research Design; D012426:Russia; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects*