Results from recent spaceflight experiments (1).
Since the flight of Sputnik 2 in 1957 the effects of weightlessness on the cardiovascular regulation are subject of physiological research. This introduction gives a short summary of the further development of cardiovascular research related to weightlessness which was subject of the contributions to the first part of this workshop.
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Uwe
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Department of Physiology and Anatomy, German Sport University Cologne, Germany. u.hoffmann@dshs-koeln.de
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000818:Animals; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness