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Key Research Questions

• What are the rate, extent, and time course of bone and connective tissue loss for different areas of the body during exposure to microgravity or simulated microgravity?
• Which endocrine and nutritional processes are required for maintenance of bone and connective tissue? How do these processes interact with mechanical loading? Are these processes affected by space flight?
• What are specific countermeasures that impact effectively upon bone and connective tissue structure and function?

Experiment/Mission Information

Experiment Information from the NASA Life Sciences Data Archive

Source: NASA Life Sciences Data Archive   Format: HTML

Description: This link to the NASA Life Sciences Data Archive provides a list of relevant descriptions of flight experiments investigating bone and calcium physiology. (Posted on 10/00)

Mission Information from the NASA Life Sciences Data Archive

Source: NASA Life Sciences Data Archive   Format: HTML

Description: This link to the NASA Life Sciences Data Archive provides a list of relevant descriptions of space flight missions that carried experiments investigating bone and calcium physiology. (Posted on 10/00)

Profiles & Overviews

Stimulation Inhibits Bone Loss

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Description: This article depicts research into using high frequency, low magnitude stimulation to inhibit bone loss in space and on Earth. (Posted on 11/03)

Links

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Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab
This site introduces the research projects at this Ames Research Center laboratory.

National Space Biomedical Research Institute
This site details the NSBRI's research projects in the area of bone loss.