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The effects of hypergravity and microgravity on biomedical experiments

Take one elephant and one man to the top of a tower and simultaneously drop. Which will hit the ground first? You are a pilot of a jet fighter performing a high-speed loop. Will you pass out during the maneuver? How can you simulate being an astronaut with your feet still firmly placed on planet Ear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russomano, Thais.
Other Authors: Dalmarco, Gustavo., Falcão, Felipe Prehn.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2008.
Series:Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering, #18.
Subjects:
Gravity > Physiological effect.
Space biology.
Online Access:Abstract with links to resource
Table of Contents:
  • General concepts in physics : definition of physical terms
  • Gravity and related concepts
  • Weight versus mass and inertial mass
  • Apparent weight and normal force
  • The Einstein principle
  • Microgravity
  • Hypogravity
  • Partial-gravity environments on earth hypergravity
  • The effects of hypergravity on biomedical experiments
  • Hypergravity and human physiology
  • G impact in space missions
  • Human centrifuges
  • The microgravity centre hypergravity experiments
  • Test models
  • The effects of microgravity on biomedical experiments
  • Ground-based microgravity simulation
  • Collection of peripheral blood and isolation of mononuclear cells
  • Cell proliferation/viability assay.

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