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The Neurolab mission and biomedical engineering: a partnership for the futureOver the last five years, with the advent of flights of U.S. Shuttle/Spacelab missions dedicated entirely to life sciences research, the opportunities for conducting serious studies that use a fully outfitted space laboratory to better understand basic biological processes have increased. The last of this series of Shuttle/Spacelab missions, currently scheduled for 1998, is dedicated entirely to neuroscience and behavioral research. The mission, named Neurolab, includes a broad range of experiments that build on previous research efforts, as well as studies related to less mature areas of space neuroscience. The Neurolab mission provides the global scientific community with the opportunity to use the space environment for investigations that exploit microgravity to increase our understanding of basic processes in neuroscience. The results from this premier mission should lead to a significant advancement in the field as a whole and to the opening of new lines of investigation for future research. Experiments under development for this mission will utilize human subjects as well as a variety of other species. The capacity to carry out detailed experiments on both human and animal subjects in space allows a diverse complement of studies that investigate functional changes and their underlying molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms. In order to conduct these experiments, a wide array of biomedical instrumentation will be used, including some instruments and devices being developed especially for the mission.
Document ID
20040089879
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Liskowsky, D. R.
(Universities Space Research Association Washington, DC 20024, United States)
Frey, M. A.
Sulzman, F. M.
White, R. J.
Likowsky, D. R.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1996
Publication Information
Publication: BME = Bio medical engineering / henshu, Nihon ME Gakkai
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0913-7556
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Program Flight
NASA Discipline Neuroscience
NASA Center HQS
NASA Discipline Number 99-99
NASA Discipline Number 00-00
NASA Program Life Sciences Management

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