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SUBMITTER: Tinganelli W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6359347 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tinganelli Walter W Hitrec Timna T Romani Fabrizio F Simoniello Palma P Squarcio Fabio F Stanzani Agnese A Piscitiello Emiliana E Marchesano Valentina V Luppi Marco M Sioli Maximiliano M Helm Alexander A Compagnone Gaetano G Morganti Alessio G AG Amici Roberto R Negrini Matteo M Zoccoli Antonio A Durante Marco M Cerri Matteo M
International journal of molecular sciences 20190116 2
Hibernation has been proposed as a tool for human space travel. In recent years, a procedure to induce a metabolic state known as "synthetic torpor" in non-hibernating mammals was successfully developed. Synthetic torpor may not only be an efficient method to spare resources and reduce psychological problems in long-term exploratory-class missions, but may also represent a countermeasure against cosmic rays. Here we show the preliminary results from an experiment in rats exposed to ionizing radi ...[more]