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Final ReportThe specific aims of the research were two fold: 1) to test the working hypothesis that space flight can alter normal development of vestibular sense organs and 2) to characterize adaptation of vestibular receptors to weightlessness and readaptation upon the return to earth. The proposed research has two scientific objectives: 1) In hatchlings (and perhaps embryos): to critically test the hypothesis that space flight can modify the ontogeny of vestibular gravity receptors, and 2) In adult birds: to characterize adaptation of vestibular gravity receptors to weightlessness and further to characterize re-adaptation of vestibular gravity receptors upon their return to earth.
Document ID
19990111682
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Jones, Timothy A.
(Missouri Univ. Columbia, MO United States)
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1998
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG2-1032
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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