Weightlessness Countermeasures

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Recent Publications on Weightlessness Countermeasures:
WISE-2005: supine treadmill exercise within lower body negative pressure and flywheel resistive exercise as a countermeasure to bed rest-induced bone loss in women during 60-day simulated microgravity. Bone loss associated with disuse during bed rest (BR), an analog of space...	20th May, 2008	Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Division, National Aeronautics and	Bone. 2008 Mar;42(3):572-81. Epub 2007 Dec 14. DOI Direct Link
WISE-2005: orthostatic tolerance is poorly predicted by acute changes in cardiovascular variables. Twenty-four (24) healthy women from 25-40 years of age underwent...	24th April, 2008	Cardiorespiratory & Vascular Dynamics Lab, Univ. Waterloo, Waterloo,	J Gravit Physiol. 2007 Jul;14(1):P63-4.
WISE 2005: altered cerebrovascular autoregulation after 60 day head-down bed rest. We tested the hypothesis that 60 days of head-down bed rest (HDBR) would...	24th April, 2008	Cardiorespiratory & Vascular Dynamics Lab, Univ. Waterloo, Waterloo,	J Gravit Physiol. 2007 Jul;14(1):P61-2.
Tibial and gastrocnemian vein response to LBNP after a 60 day bedrest with and without counter-measures (WISE study). The objective was to quantify calf vein cross section area (CSA) maximal...	24th April, 2008	UMPS Unit Med Physiol spatiale, Univ-CHU Tours, France.	J Gravit Physiol. 2007 Jul;14(1):P57-8.
WISE 2005: flow and nitroglycerin mediated dilation following 56 days of head down tilt bed rest with and without an exercise countermeasure. This investigation set out to determine the effect of 56 days of head-down...	24th April, 2008	Cardiorespiratory & Vascular Dynamics Lab, Univ. Waterloo, Waterloo,	J Gravit Physiol. 2007 Jul;14(1):P55-6.
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