|
Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences
|
Buy Now
Advances in Space Biology and Medicine, Volume 7 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,792
Discovery Miles 27 920
|
|
|
Advances in Space Biology and Medicine, Volume 7 (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Space Biology and Medicine
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
During the past several years there has been a shortage of flight
opportunities for biological and medical projects. And those that
were available usually had severe restrictions on instrumentation,
number of subjects, duration, time allotted for performing the
experiments, a possibility for repetition of experiments. It is our
hope and expectation that this will change once the international
Space Station is in full operation. The advantages of a permanent
space station, already demonstrated by the Russian Mir station, are
continuous availability of expert crew and a wide range of
equipment, possibility of long-term experiments where this is
waranted, increased numbers of subjects through larger laboratory
space, proper controls in the large 1-G centrifuge, easier
repeatability of experiments when needed.
The limited number of flight opportunities during recent years
probably explains why it has taken so long to acquire a sufficient
number of high quality contributions for this seventh volume of
Advances in Space Biology and Medicine. While initially the series
wassailed at annually appearing volumes, we are now down to a
biannual appearance. Hopefully, it will be possible to return to
annual volumes in the future when results from space station
experimentation at beginning to pour in.
The first three chapters of this volume deal with muscle. Fejtek
and Wassersug provide a survey of all studies on muscle of rodents
flown in space, and include an interesting demography of this
aspect of space research. Riley reviews our current knowledge of
the effects of long-term spaceflight and re-entry on skeletal
muscle, and considers the questions still to be answered before we
can be satisfied that long-term space missions, such as on the
space station, can be safely undertaken. Stein reviews our
understanding of the nutritional and hormonal aspects of muscle
loss in spaceflight, and concludes that the protein loss in space
could be deleterious to health during flight and after return.
Strollo summarizes our understanding of the major endocrine systems
on the ground, then considers what we know about their functioning
in space, concluding that there is much to be learned about the
changes taking place during spaceflight. The many problems of
providing life support (oxygen regeneration and food supply) during
extended stay on the Moon, on Mars, or in space by means of plant
cultivation are discussed by Salisbury. The challenges of utilizing
electrophoresis in microgravity for the separation of cells and
proteins are illustrated and explained by Bauer and colleagues.
Finally, the chapter on teaching of space life sciences by Schmitt
shows that this field of science has come of age, but also that its
multidisciplinary character poses interesting challenges to
teaching it.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
