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SUBMITTER: Sandona D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3314659 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sandonà Dorianna D Desaphy Jean-Francois JF Camerino Giulia M GM Bianchini Elisa E Ciciliot Stefano S Danieli-Betto Daniela D Dobrowolny Gabriella G Furlan Sandra S Germinario Elena E Goto Katsumasa K Gutsmann Martina M Kawano Fuminori F Nakai Naoya N Ohira Takashi T Ohno Yoshitaka Y Picard Anne A Salanova Michele M Schiffl Gudrun G Blottner Dieter D Musarò Antonio A Ohira Yoshinobu Y Betto Romeo R Conte Diana D Schiaffino Stefano S
PloS one 20120328 3
The effect of microgravity on skeletal muscles has so far been examined in rat and mice only after short-term (5-20 day) spaceflights. The mice drawer system (MDS) program, sponsored by Italian Space Agency, for the first time aimed to investigate the consequences of long-term (91 days) exposure to microgravity in mice within the International Space Station. Muscle atrophy was present indistinctly in all fiber types of the slow-twitch soleus muscle, but was only slightly greater than that observ ...[more]