Proteomic Analysis of Brain in Simulated Microgravity Environment
- Paper number
IAC-07-A2.4.01
- Author
Dr. Govindarajan Ramesh, Texas Southern University, United States
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Space travel induces many deleterious effect on the in flight crew due to the 0g environment. Brain experiences a tremendous fluid shift and is detrimental for many of the changes in physical behavior seen in astronauts. The future space exploration that challenges to keep the crew healthy is a major thirst for space biologists. Towards such effort we have screened proteins in the hippocampus of mice under simulated microgravity environment for seven days and have observed changes in major proteins as compared to control mice. Essentially the results show a major loss of proteins in hippocampus of mice subjected to simulated microgravity. This preliminary investigation leads to better understand the alterations of proteins in the hippocampus in microgravity environment.
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