NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #835 8 February 2019 (Space Life Science Research Results)
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Papers deriving from NASA support:
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Vandenbrink JP, Kiss JZ.
Preparation of a spaceflight experiment to study tropisms in Arabidopsis seedlings on the International Space Station.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1924:207-14.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PI: J.Z. Kiss
Note: ISS results. From the abstract: “Here, we describe the methods for preparation of a plant biology experiment with seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana utilizing the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS) on the International Space Station (ISS).”
Journal Impact Factor: 0.79
Funding: No funding cited. The PI reports funding under NASA grant “Novel Explorations into the Interactions between Light and Gravity Sensing in Plants.”
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DeFina LF, Radford NB, Barlow CE, Willis BL, Leonard D, Haskell WL, Farrell SW, Pavlovic A, Abel K, Berry JD, Khera A, Levine BD.
Association of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality with high levels of physical activity and concurrent coronary artery calcification.
JAMA Cardiol. 2019 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
PI: B.D. Levine
Journal Impact Factor: 10.1
Funding: “This study was supported in part by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute through NASA Cooperative Agreement NCC 9-58.”
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Rabin BM, Poulose SM, Bielinski DF, Shukitt-Hale B.
Effects of head-only or whole-body exposure to very low doses of 4He (1000 MeV/n) particles on neuronal function and cognitive performance.
Life Sci Space Res. 2019 Feb 5. [Article in Press]
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
PI: B. Rabin
Journal Impact Factor: 1.97
Funding: “This research was supported by NASA Grants: NNX13AB73G and NNX16AE06G.”
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Braly AM, Nuernberger B, Kim SY.
Augmented reality improves procedural work on an International Space Station science instrument.
Hum Factors. 2019 Jan 29. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: From the abstract: “Participants completed simple procedural tasks on spaceflight hardware using an augmented reality instruction method and a paper instruction method.” The NASA Task Load Index was used.
Journal Impact Factor: 2.371
Funding: No funding cited. The authors are affiliated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Other papers of interest:
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Rybalchenko OV, Orlova OG, Vishnevskaya ON, Kapustina VV, Potokin IL, Lavrikova VV.
[Features of formation of bacterial biofilms in conditions of space flight].
Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 2016 Nov(6):3-10. Russian.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: ISS results.
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Dunn C, Boyd M, Orengo I.
Dermatologic manifestations in spaceflight: A review.
Dermatol Online J. 2018 Nov 15;24(11):4. Review.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: ISS results. This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Andrews MT.
Molecular interactions underpinning the phenotype of hibernation in mammals.
J Exp Biol. 2019 Jan 25;222(Pt 2):jeb160606. Review.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Tsukamoto D, Hasegawa T, Hirose SI, Sakurai Y, Ito M, Takamatsu N.
Circadian transcription factor HSF1 regulates differential HSP70 gene transcription during the arousal-torpor cycle in mammalian hibernation.
Sci Rep. 2019 Jan 29;9(1):832.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Grigoryan E, Radugina E.
Behavior of stem-like cells, precursors for tissue regeneration in Urodela, under conditions of microgravity.
Stem Cells Dev. 2019 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: The method of microgravity simulation is not provided in the available abstract.
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Scheer F, Chellappa SL, Hu K, Shea SA.
Impact of mental stress, the circadian system and their interaction on human cardiovascular function.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 Jan 16;103:125-9.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Arentson-Lantz EJ, Galvan E, Ellison J, Wacher A, Paddon-Jones D.
Improving dietary protein quality reduces the negative effects of physical inactivity on body composition and muscle function.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2019 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Horstman AMH, Backx EMP, Smeets JSJ, Marzuca-Nassr GN, van Kranenburg J, de Boer D, Dolmans J, Snijders T, Verdijk LB, de Groot L, van Loon LJC.
Nandrolone decanoate administration does not attenuate muscle atrophy during a short period of disuse.
PLoS One. 2019 Jan 28;14(1):e0210823.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: Cast immobilization was used. This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Teodori L, Costa A, Campanella L, Albertini MC.
Skeletal muscle atrophy in simulated microgravity might be triggered by immune-related microRNAs.
Front Physiol. 2019 Jan 10;9:1926.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: Bed rest study. This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Andrews RN, Dugan GO, Peiffer AM, Hawkins GA, Hanbury DB, Bourland JD, Hampson RE, Deadwyler SA, Cline JM.
White matter is the predilection site of late-delayed radiation-induced brain injury in non-human primates.
Radiat Res. 2019 Jan 29. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Park S, Park JH, Ryu SH, Yeom J, Ryu JW, Park EY, Choi KC, Heo SH, Kim KH, Ha CH, Chang SK, Lee SW.
Radiation-induced phosphorylation of serine 360 of SMC1 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Radiat Res. 2019 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Gallagher M, Arshad I, Ferrè ER.
Gravity modulates behaviour control strategy.
Exp Brain Res. 2019 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Cohen B, Dai M, Yakushin SB, Cho C.
The neural basis of motion sickness.
J Neurophysiol. 2019 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Lychakov DV, Aristakesyan EA, Oganesyan GA.
[The effect of motion sickness on the sleep-wake cycle in rats exposed to prenatal hypoxia].
Zh Evol Biokhim Fiziol. 2017 Jan;53(1):41-8. Russian.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Sasaki R, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC.
Processing of object motion and self-motion in the lateral subdivision of the medial superior temporal area in macaques.
J Neurophysiol. 2019 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Chellappa SL, Morris CJ, Scheer F.
Effects of circadian misalignment on cognition in chronic shift workers.
Sci Rep. 2019 Jan 24;9(1):699.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Glazkova N, Podladchikova T, Gerzer R, Stepanova D.
Non-invasive wearable ECG-patch system for astronauts and patients on Earth.
Acta Astronaut. 2019 Jan 31. [Article in Press]
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
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Borisova T.
Express assessment of neurotoxicity of particles of planetary and interstellar dust.
npj Microgravity. 2019 Feb 4;5(1):2.
https://www.nature.com/
Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Coutand C, Adam B, Ploquin S, Moulia B.
A method for the quantification of phototropic and gravitropic sensitivities of plants combining an original experimental device with model-assisted phenotyping: Exploratory test of the method on three hardwood tree species.
PLoS One. 2019 Jan 27;14(1):e0209973.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.
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Gao J, Yu M, Zhu S, Zhou L, Liu S.
Effects of exogenous 24-epibrassinolide and brassinazole on negative gravitropism and tension wood formation in hybrid poplar (Populus deltoids x Populus nigra).
Planta. 2019 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Haga K, Kimura T.
Physiological characterization of phototropism in Arabidopsis seedlings.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1924:3-17.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Barré J, Michelet D, Truchot J, Jolivet E, Recanzone T, Stiti S, Tesnière A, Pourcher G.
Virtual reality single-port sleeve gastrectomy training decreases physical and mental workload in novice surgeons: An exploratory study.
Obes Surg. 2019 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Note: The NASA Task Load Index was used.
