Comparative analysis of the skeletal changes in tetrapods after brief influence of microgravity.
Experiments involving lower tetrapods demonstrate that the degree of skeletal demineralization in spaceflights is related to the type of environmental behaviour of the animal. Probably the sensing of support reaction decreases the negative effect of spaceflight upon the bone tissue.
Nikitin
V B
VB
Institute of Human Morphology, ul. Tsurupi-3, Moscow, Russia.
Gulimova
V I
VI
Ilyin
E A
EA
Asadchikov
V E
VE
Buzmakov
A V
AV
Okshtein
I L
IL
Saveliev
S V
SV
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D018488:Bone Demineralization, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015519:Bone Density; D008116:Lizards; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness