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SUBMITTER: Mao XW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547757 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mao Xiao W XW Nishiyama Nina C NC Byrum Stephanie D SD Stanbouly Seta S Jones Tamako T Drew Alyson A Sridharan Vijayalakshmi V Boerma Marjan M Tackett Alan J AJ Zawieja David D Willey Jeffrey S JS Delp Michael M Pecaut Michael J MJ
Scientific reports 20190603 1
The health risks associated with spaceflight-induced ocular structural and functional damage has become a recent concern for NASA. The goal of the present study was to characterize the effects of spaceflight and reentry to 1 g on the structure and integrity of the retina and blood-retinal barrier (BRB) in the eye. To investigate possible mechanisms, changes in protein expression profiles were examined in mouse ocular tissue after spaceflight. Ten week old male C57BL/6 mice were launched to the I ...[more]