Main Directions of the Russian/Japanese Cooperation
- Paper number
IAC-05-A1.P.08
- Author
Mr. Mark Belakovskiy, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russia
- Year
2005
- Abstract
Main Directions of the Russian/Japanese Cooperation in the Sphere of Life Sciences Mark S. Belakovskiy, *Sergey V. Chernikov State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation – Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow * Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Moscow The cooperation between IBMP and Japanese institutions has been lasting for more than 2 decades. Starting from the beginning of the 90s this activity has especially been livening up. More that 18 joint projects have been performed during this period. The Russian specialists prepared analytic reviews on the subjects interesting for the Japanese scientists: “Support of radiation safety of manned space flights (regulation and organization)”, “Radiation monitoring of Russian space flights. Principles and realization”, “Modern conception and problems of muscle and bone tissues, metabolism, and cardio-vascular system in space medicine”, “Psychological problems of long-term space flight”. 4 workshops on different directions of space medicine and radiation safety of space flights have been carried out for Japanese scientists. In 1996 a group of Japanese specialists took part in a study at the IBMP with 13 men-volunteers under 120-days antiorthostatic hypokinesia conditions. The advanced methodologies and technologies were used for histological, histochemical and ultra-structural studies of biopsy muscles. In 1999-2000 NASDA experts took part in the experiment simulating flight of international crew at space station. The wide program of the Japanese studies included 22 different experiments. Besides, 3 NASDA employees participated as the crew members inside the containment “space” object. The Russian specialists assisted their Japanese colleagues in performing of the scientific experiments for assessment of medical-psychological state with the use of NTSC/HDTV equipment, for implementation of protein crystallization under the real space flight conditions at the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (RS ISS). Presently the collaboration between Russian and Japanese institutions is developing in several directions: - study of sympathetic regulation of vascular tone under extreme environment conditions: in simulated gravitational unloading and during physical training under high environment temperature (Laboratory of Prof. O. Vinogradova, IBMP, and Satoshi Iwase, Aichi Medical University) - implementation of space medicine achievements in the practice of rehabilitation of patients in clinics (Department of the RAS Corresponding Member I. Kozlovskaya, IBMP, and Yoshinobu Ohire, Osaka University); - support of Japanese specialists in the implementation of the nanotechnology experiment on board the RS ISS. Long-term fruitful, mutually beneficial cooperation in space medicine between Russian and Japanese scientists is a good base for further successful collaboration.
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