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Adaptation of the vestibular system to microgravity

Author(s):
Daunton, N G, investigator
Investigator(s):
Daunton,N G,ARC Life Science Division, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
Title(s):
Adaptation of the vestibular system to microgravity / N.G. Daunton.
Series:
Handbook of physiology ; sect. 4
Found In:
Fregly MJ, Blatteis CM, eds. Environmental physiology, vol. 1
Country of Publication:
United States
Publisher:
New York : Published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 1996.
Description:
p. 765-783.
Language:
English
Summary:
The author provides an overview of the vestibular system and reviews adaptation in the vestibular system, functional evidence of adaptation to microgravity, and physiological and morphological evidence of adaptation. Topics examined about functional evidence of adaptation in microgravity include control of eye movements, control of posture, perception of orientation and motion, and space motion sickness. Topics examined about physiological and morphological evidence of adaptation include otolith organs and the semicircular canals in the peripheral vestibular system and the central nervous system.
MeSH:
Adaptation, Physiological/physiology*
Space Flight*
Vestibule, Labyrinth/physiology*
Weightlessness*
Other Subject(s):
NASA Center ARC
Space Flight Mission:
MannedSTS Shuttle ProjectSTS-9 Shuttle ProjectShort duration
Report Number:
00020004
Other ID:
(DNLM)97615835
NLM ID:
100932675 [Book Chapter]

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