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Metabolic Cage for a Space Flight Model in the RatThe new cage facilitates the collection of 24-h specimens of separated urine and feces apparently uncontaminated by food, as required for precise nutritional and metabolic studies, while maintaining the large floor area and suspension method of Holton's design (3). Although the cage was evaluated, using 6-month-old rats weighing 408 to 488 g, it can be easily adjusted for smaller rats. It also was successfully used to collect post-flight urine after the recent Spacelab Life Sciences-2 space shuttle flight. With its flexibility and ease of use, this new cage design adds a new tool to study the physiologic effects of simulated space flight and other disuse conditions.
Document ID
19970016452
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Jennifer S Harper
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Gerald M Mulenburg
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Juli Evans
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Meena Navidi
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Ira Wolinsky
(University of Houston Houston, Texas, United States)
Sara B Arnaud
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Laboratory Animal Science
Publisher: American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
Volume: 44
Issue: 6
Issue Publication Date: December 1, 1994
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
NASA-CR-204045
NAS 1.26:204045
Accession Number
97N71515
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 199-26-12-02
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Public
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