Article
The role of sex and genotype on antiorthostatic suspension effects on the mouse peripheral skeleton.
Aviation, space, and environmental medicine - 1 Feb 1994
Simske S J, Luttges M W, Allen K A, Gayles E C
Abstract excerpt
Previous antiorthostatic suspension studies have used a single sex and strain of rat or mouse. Nonetheless, broadly similar effects of suspension on the two species indicates a generalized effect of suspension not attributed to specific genetic, behavioral, or sex-linked etiology. In order to dir...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomechanical Phenomena
- Body Weight
- Bone and Bones
- Female
- Femur
- Genotype
- Gravitation
- Humerus
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
