NASA Spaceline 18 November 2005 Current Space Life Science Awareness
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Debold EP, Romatowski JG, Fitts RH.
The depressive effect of Pi on the force-calcium relationship in skinned single muscle fibers is temperature dependent.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2005 Nov 9; [Epub ahead of print]
(HSR&T PI: R.H. Fitts)
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Lawler JM, Song W, Kwak HB.
Differential response of heat shock proteins to hindlimb unloading and reloading in the soleus.
Muscle Nerve. 2005 Oct 28; [Epub ahead of print]
(HSR&T PI: J.M. Lawler?, American College of Sports Medicine/NASA Space Physiology Research Grant)
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Lackner JR, Dizio P.
Motor control and learning in altered dynamic environments.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2005 Nov 2; [Epub ahead of print]
(HSR&T PI: J.R. Lackner)
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Sokolov MV, Smilenov LB, Hall EJ, Panyutin IG, Bonner WM, Sedelnikova OA.
Ionizing radiation induces DNA double-strand breaks in bystander primary human fibroblasts.
Oncogene. 2005 Nov 10;24(49):7257-65.
(HSR&T PI: E.J. Hall)
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This paper can be obtained online without charge.
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Persaud R, Zhou H, Baker SE, Hei TK, Hall EJ.
Assessment of low linear energy transfer radiation-induced bystander mutagenesis in a three-dimensional culture model.
Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 1;65(21):9876-82.
(HSR&T PI: E.J. Hall)
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Plan Y, Hlatky L, Hahnfeldt P, Sachs R, Loucas B, Cornforth M.
Full-color painting reveals an excess of radiation-induced dicentrics involving homologous chromosomes.
Int J Radiat Biol. 2005 Oct 19; [Epub ahead of print]
(HSR&T PIs: L. Hlatky, M. Cornforth)
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Chiang CS, Shirinian L, Sukharev S.
Capping transmembrane helices of MscL with aromatic residues changes channel response to membrane stretch.
Biochemistry. 2005 Sep 20;44(37):12589-97.
(HSR&T PI: S. Sukharev)
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Musgrave ME, Kuang A, Tuominen LK, Levine LH, Morrow RC.
Seed storage reserves and glucosinolates in Brassica rapa L. grown on the International Space Station.
J Am Soc Hortic Sci. 2005 Nov;130(6):848-56.
(HSR&T PI: M.E. Musgrave)
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Reports ISS results. This research was featured on the cover of this issue of the journal.
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Frantz JM, Bugbee B.
Acclimation of plant populations to shade: Photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon use efficiency.
J Am Soc Hortic Sci. 2005 Nov;130(6):918-27.
(HSR&T PIs: J.M. Frantz, NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program, B. Bugbee)
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Poupart J, Rashotte AM, Muday GK, Waddell CS.
The rib1 mutant of Arabidopsis has alterations in indole-3-butyric acid transport, hypocotyl elongation, and root architecture.
Plant Physiol. 2005 Nov;139(3):1460-71. Epub 2005 Oct 28.
(HSR&T PIs: NSCORT in Plant Gravitational Biology; G.K. Muday)
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Theroux MC, Oberman KG, Lahaye J, Boyce BA, Duhadaway D, Miller F, Akins RE.
Dysmorphic neuromuscular junctions associated with motor ability in cerebral palsy.
Muscle Nerve. 2005 Nov;32(5):626-32.
(HSR&T PI: R.E. Akins)
Other papers of interest:
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Siu PM, Pistilli EE, Murlasits Z, Alway SE.
Hindlimb unloading increases muscle content of cytosolic but not nuclear Id2 and p53 proteins in young adult and aged rats.
J Appl Physiol. 2005 Nov 10; [Epub ahead of print]
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Treffort N, Picquet F, Petit J, Falempin M.
The structure and response properties of Golgi tendon organs in control and hypodynamia-hypokinesia rats.
Exp Neurol. 2005 Oct;195(2):313-21.
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Belin de Chantemele E, Gauquelin-Koch G, Duvareille M, Pellet N, Gharib C, Custaud MA.
Blood volume measurement: The comparison of pulse dye densitometry and Dill and Costill’s methods.
Life Sci. 2005 Oct 27; [Epub ahead of print]
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Methodology was tested during a 90-day microgravity simulation by head-down-tilt bed rest.
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Burrowes KS, Hunter PJ, Tawhai MH.
Investigation of the relative effects of vascular branching structure and gravity on pulmonary arterial blood flow heterogeneity via an image-based computational model.
Acad Radiol. 2005 Nov;12(11):1464-74.
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Li N, Angelaki DE.
Updating visual space during motion in depth.
Neuron. 2005 Oct 6;48(1):149-58.
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Kobayashi A, Cheung B.
Detection of cerebral oxyhaemoglobin changes during vestibular Coriolis cross-coupling stimulation using near infrared spectroscopy.
Neurosci Lett. 2005 Oct 28; [Epub ahead of print]
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Erofeeva LM, Krasnov IB, Sapin MR.
Changes in the rat thymus cytoarchitectonics during repeated exposure to hypergravitation.
Bull Exp Biol Med. 2005 Aug;140(2):246-8. English, Russian.
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Hirayama R, Furusawa Y, Fukawa T, Ando K.
Repair kinetics of DNA-DSB induced by X-rays or carbon ions under oxic and hypoxic conditions.
J Radiat Res (Tokyo). 2005 Sep;46(3):325-32.
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This paper can be obtained online without charge.
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Mehnati P, Morimoto S, Yatagai F, Furusawa Y, Kobayashi Y, Wada S, Kanai T, Hanaoka F, Sasaki H.
Exploration of “over kill effect” of high-LET Ar- and Fe-ions by evaluating the fraction of non-hit cell and interphase death.
J Radiat Res (Tokyo). 2005 Sep;46(3):343-50.
Note:
This paper can be obtained online without charge.
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No authors listed.
[Monitoring of microbial degraders in manned space stations]
Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol. 2005 Jul-Aug;41(4):435-43. Russian.
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Lamarca HL, Ott CM, Honer Zu Bentrup K, Leblanc CL, Pierson DL, Nelson AB, Scandurro AB, Whitley GS, Nickerson CA, Morris CA.
Three-dimensional growth of extravillous cytotrophoblasts promotes differentiation and invasion.
Placenta. 2005 Nov;26(10):709-20. Epub 2005 Jan 25.
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Used rotating wall vessel bioreactor.
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Shitanda I, Takada K, Sakai Y, Tatsuma T.
Amperometric biosensing systems based on motility and gravitaxis of flagellate algae for aquatic risk assessment.
Anal Chem. 2005 Oct 15;77(20):6715-8.
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From abstract: “In comparison with the conventional algal biosensors monitoring the photosynthetic activity, the gravitaxis-based thin-layer sensor was more sensitive by more than 1 order of magnitude.”
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Schilling N.
Ontogenetic development of locomotion in small mammals–a kinematic study.
J Exp Biol. 2005 Nov 1;208(Pt 21):4013-34.
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Woll K, Borsuk LA, Stransky H, Nettleton D, Schnable PS, Hochholdinger F.
Isolation, characterization, and pericycle-specific transcriptome analyses of the novel maize lateral and seminal root initiation mutant rum1.
Plant Physiol. 2005 Nov;139(3):1255-67. Epub 2005 Oct 7.
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Mutant exhibits a delayed gravitropic response.
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Cosgrove DJ.
Growth of the plant cell wall.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2005 Nov;6(11):850-61.