Cardiac Adaptation To Long-Term Simulated Weightlessness In Rat

Cardiovascular adaptation to long-term weightlessness is one of the fundamental questions concerned in the field of gravitational physiology over the next decades. The information generated will be helpful to develop adequate measures that improve the health, safety, comfort and performance for prolonged missions and enhance the postflight recovery of the cardiovascular function. Additional benefits will be provided by supplying data which will be useful to clarify the cardiovascular function and its regulatory mechanisms in high-G exposure, aerobic training and prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.Physiological findings from space flight and ground- based studies have demonstrated that whether with spaceflight, bedrest or immerssion there is a headward redistribution of body fluids...