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Gravity and Embryonic Development

  • R. S. Young
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents List VII
  4. Biomedical Results of the Skylab Programme
  5. Biomedical Results of the Skylab Program 1
  6. Symposium on Gravitational Physiology
  7. Considerations of Geotropism in Plants 21
  8. Hormones and the Growth of Plants in response to Gravity 37
  9. The Evolutionary Role of Gravity 47
  10. Weight and Shape 57
  11. Gravity and Embryonic Development 69
  12. Physiological Effects of Sustained Acceleration 77
  13. Physiological Changes associated with Long-Term Increases in Acceleration 91
  14. Physiological Effects induced by Antiorthostatic Hypokinesia 101
  15. The Prevention of Motion Sickness in Orbital Flight 109
  16. Mineral and Nitrogen Metabolic Studies on Skylab Plights and Comparison with Effects of Earth Long-Term Recumbency 119
  17. Human Tolerance to Acceleration after exposure to Weightlessness 129
  18. On the Mechanisms of Changes in Skeletal Muscles in the Weightless Environment 137
  19. Results of Medical Investigations carried out on board the Salyut Orbital Stations 145
  20. Spacelab and its Utilization for Biomedical Experiments 153
  21. Radiation Biology
  22. Irradiation of Bio-objects aboard the Cosmos 690 Biosatellite 165
  23. Investigation of Radiation Sensitivity in Mammals under long Duration Weightlessness 173
  24. Effect of Irradiation in the Space Environment on the Blood-forming System in Rats 179
  25. Biochemical changes in Rats flown on board the Cosmos 690 Biosatellite 185
  26. Study of the Biochemical Indicators of Chronic Irradiation in Rats 189
  27. Pioneer 10 and 11 Jovian Encounters: Radiation Dose and Biological Lethality 195
  28. Cytogenetic Analysis of Seeds of Crepis capillaris (L) Wallr. exposed on the Satellite Cosmos 613 201
  29. Role of Cerenkov Radiation in the Eye-flashes observed by Apollo Astronauts 205
  30. Study with a Multi-threshold HZE-particle Dosimeter using Plastic Detectors 219
  31. Lesional Effects of Primary Cosmic Heavy Ions on Rat Brain 225
  32. Effects of 40Ar on the Nerve Cells of Drosophila (Abstract only) 231
  33. The Biostack as an approach to High LET Research 233
  34. Localization and Track Evaluation of HZE Particles 241
  35. Influence of Heavy Ions on the Transforming Activity of DNA 247
  36. Study of Basic Electrostatic Radiation Shield Characteristics on board the Cosmos 605 Satellite 251
  37. Gravitational Biology
  38. Amino Acid Spectrum of Human Blood Plasma during Space Flight and in Antiorthostatic Hypokinesia 257
  39. Space Flight Effects on the Bioenergetics of the Skeletal Muscles in Rats 263
  40. Body Composition Changes in Men and Women after 2—3 weeks of Bed Rest 269
  41. Antiorthostatic Test as a model to study Antigravity Mechanisms of the Cardiovascular System 275
  42. Metabolic Processes in Hypokinetic and Rehabilitated Men 281
  43. Effect of Antiorthostatic Bed Rest on the Human Body 285
  44. Deconditioning during Prolonged Immersion and possible Countermeasures 289
  45. Study of Space Perception Function during Simulation of certain Space Plight Factors 295
  46. Cardiac Output during Physical Exercises following Real and Simulated Space Flight 301
  47. Renal Osmoregulatory Function during Simulated Space Flight 307
  48. Characteristics of Postural Self-Regulation in Complex Spatial Environments and After-Effects of Weightlessness 313
  49. Hypergravitation and Sympatho-Adrenergic Reactivity 319
  50. A Study of the Cumulative Effects of Repeated Exposures to Radial Accelerations 325
  51. Heat Exchange between the Organism and Environment under conditions of Weightlessness; Methodical Approach 329
  52. Planetary Quarantine
  53. Effect of Extreme Factors on Micro-Organisms used for the Control of the Effectiveness of Sterilization 337
  54. Sterilization of a Biological Analyser 341
  55. Exobiology
  56. On Methods of Detection of Extraterrestrial Life 345
  57. Performance of Fungi in Low Temperature and Hypersaline Environments 351
  58. Effect of Space Factors on Escherichia coli B/r Cells 355
  59. On Micro-Organisms of the Stratosphere 359
  60. Geomycology 363
  61. Index of Authors 367
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