Status Report

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #684 5 February 2016

By SpaceRef Editor

February 5, 2016

Filed under ISS, Spaceline, Spaceline Current Awareness, US

Papers deriving from NASA support:

Vandenbrink JP, Kiss JZ.

Space, the final frontier: A critical review of recent experiments performed in microgravity.

Plant Sci. 2016 Feb;243:115-9. Review. Epub 2015 Nov 7.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26795156

PI: J.Z. Kiss

Note: ISS and Shenzhou 8 plant experiments are discussed.

Journal Impact Factor: 5.607

Funding: “We gratefully acknowledge financial support provided by NASA through grants NNX12AO65G and NNX15AK39A.”

Shelhamer M.

Parabolic flight as a spaceflight analog.

J Appl Physiol (1985). 2016 Jan 21:jap.01046.2015. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796759

Note: Parabolic flight results.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.056

Funding: No funding cited. M. Shelhamer is affiliated with NASA Johnson Space Center as Chief Scientist.

Chowdhury B, Seetharam A, Wang Z, Liu Y, Lossie AC, Thimmapuram J, Irudayaraj J.

A study of alterations in DNA epigenetic modifications (5mC and 5hmC) and gene expression influenced by simulated microgravity in human lymphoblastoid cells.

PLoS One. 2016 Jan 28;11(1):e0147514.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26820575

PI: J. Irudayaraj

Note: An HARV Rotary Cell Culture System was used. This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.234

Funding: “The authors would like to acknowledge the following agencies for their support in funding this study: a) NASA (NNX12AN09G); b) NIH, NCI R25CA128770 Cancer Prevention Internship Program; c) Indiana CTSI (TR000006); d)W.M. Keck Foundation; e) Purdue Center for Cancer Research (P30CA023168).”

Arentson-Lantz E, English KL, Paddon-Jones D, Fry CS.

14 days of bed rest induces a decline in satellite cell content and robust atrophy of skeletal muscle fibers in middle-aged adults.

J Appl Physiol (1985). 2016 Jan 21:jap.00799.2015. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796754

PI: D. Paddon-Jones

Note: Bed rest study.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.056

Funding: “Funded by NSBRI grant NNJ08ZSA002N, NIH R01NR012973 (D Paddon-Jones), a Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship (KL English), NIH grant T32HD007539, and in part by 427 1UL1RR029876-01 from the National Center for Research Resources. CS Fry is a KL2 scholar supported by the UTMB Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center NIH/NIA 429 grant P30 AG024832. The study was conducted with the support of UTMB’s Institute for Translational Sciences, supported in part by a Clinical and Translational Science Award 431 (UL1TR000071) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NIH).”

Datta K, Suman S, Kumar S, Fornace AJ Jr.

Colorectal carcinogenesis, radiation quality, and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

J Cancer. 2016 Jan 1;7(2):174-83. Review.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819641

PIs: K. Datta; A.J. Fornace Jr/K. Datta/NSCOR

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.271

Funding: “This study is supported in part by NASA grants NNX13AD58G and NNX09AU95G.”

Raber J, Allen AR, Weber S, Chakraborti A, Sharma S, Fike JR.

Effect of behavioral testing on spine density of basal dendrites in the CA1 region of the hippocampus modulated by 56Fe irradiation.

Behav Brain Res. 2016 Jan 20;302:263-8. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26801826

PI: J.R. Fike, J. Raber

Journal Impact Factor: 3.028

Funding: “This work was supported by NASA Grants NNX08BA07G, NNX13AD60G, and NNJ12ZSA001N.”

Azzam EI, Colangelo NW, Domogauer JD, Sharma N, de Toledo SM.

Is ionizing radiation harmful at any exposure? An echo that continues to vibrate.

Health Phys. 2016 Mar;110(3):249-51.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26808874

PI: E.I. Azzam

Journal Impact Factor: 1.271

Funding: “Work in the authors’ laboratory is supported by grants CA049062 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NNX15AD62G from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).”

Rithidech KN.

Health benefits of exposure to low-dose radiation.

Health Phys. 2016 Mar;110(3):293-5.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26808887

PI: K.N. Rithidech

Journal Impact Factor: 1.271

Funding: “Research funded by NASA Grant #NNX11AK91G.”

Wilson PF.

Magnification of inter-individual variation in biological responses after low doses and dose-rates of ionizing radiation.

Health Phys. 2016 Mar;110(3):296-8.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26808888

PI: C. Porada

Journal Impact Factor: 1.271

Funding: “Funding Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant NNX13AB67G.”

Yun S, Donovan MH, Ross MN, Richardson DR, Reister R, Farnbauch LA, Fischer SJ, Riethmacher D, Gershenfeld HK, Lagace DC, Eisch AJ.

Stress-induced anxiety- and depressive-like phenotype associated with transient reduction in neurogenesis in adult Nestin-CreERT2/diphtheria toxin fragment A transgenic mice.

PLoS One. 2016 Jan 21;11(1):e0147256.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26795203

PIs: A.J. Eisch, B. Chen

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Journal Impact Factor: 3.234

Funding: “This work was supported by grants to AJE from the National Institutes of Health (DA023701, DA023555, MH107945), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX12AB55G, NNX07AP84G [PI is B. Chen]), and an Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression/Brain and Behavior Foundation. DCL was funded by a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral fellowship and CIHR operating grant, as well as a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression/Brain and Behavior Foundation, and an Early Research Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. MHD was funded by F31-MH075457. MNR was funded by NIH F31-DA021045. MNR and SJF were supported by NIH T32-DA007290, Basic Science Training Program in Drug Abuse Research, PI: Amelia J. Eisch. SY was funded by NIH T32-MH076690, Basic Science Training Program in the Neurobiology of Mental Illness, PI: Carol A. Tamminga.”

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Other papers of interest:

Corydon TJ, Kopp S, Wehland M, Braun M, Schtte A, Mayer T, Hulsing T, Oltmann H, Schmitz B, Hemmersbach R, Grimm D.

Alterations of the cytoskeleton in human cells in space proved by life-cell imaging.

Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 28;6:20043.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26818711

Note: Parabolic flight and sounding rocket results. This article may be obtained online without charge.

Debevec T, Pialoux V, Ehrstrm S, Ribon A, Eiken O, Mekjavi IB, Millet GP.

FemHab: The effects of bed rest and hypoxia on oxidative stress in healthy females.

J Appl Physiol (1985). 2016 Jan 21:jap.00919.2015. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796757

Note: Bed rest study.

Park J, Yun C, Kang S.

Physical condition does not affect gravity-induced loss of consciousness during human centrifuge training in well-experienced young aviators.

PLoS One. 2016 Jan 26;11(1):e0147921.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26812597

Note: A centrifuge was used. This article may be obtained online without charge.

Wu CW, Storey KB.

Life in the cold: Links between mammalian hibernation and longevity.

Biomol Concepts. 2016 Feb 1;7(1):41-52. Review.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26820181

Madden D, Thom SR, Dujic Z.

Exercise before and after SCUBA diving and the role of cellular microparticles in decompression stress.

Med Hypotheses. 2016 Jan;86:80-4. Epub 2015 Dec 15.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26804603

Pastushkova L, Custaud MA, Kononikhin AS, Brzhozovsky AG, Dmitrieva LE, Dobrokhotov IV, Tiis ES, Larina IM.

[Modification of urine proteome in healthy human during 21-day bed rest].

Aviakosm Ekolog Med. 2015;49(5):11-6. Russian.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26803880

Note: Bed rest study.

Cezar CA, Roche ET, Vandenburgh HH, Duda GN, Walsh CJ, Mooney DJ.

Biologic-free mechanically induced muscle regeneration.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 25. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26811474

Dolbow DR, Gorgey AS.

Effects of use and disuse on non-paralyzed and paralyzed skeletal muscles.

Aging Dis. 2016 Jan;7(1):68-80. Review.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816665

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Ravi S, Schilder RJ, Berg AS, Kimball SR.

Effects of age and hindlimb immobilization and remobilization on fast troponin T precursor mRNA alternative splicing in rat gastrocnemius muscle.

Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2016 Feb;4(12);142-9. Epub 2015 Oct 16.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26799695

Note: Cast immobilization was used.

Romanello V, Sandri M.

Mitochondrial quality control and muscle mass maintenance.

Front Physiol. 2015 Jan 12;6:422. Review.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793123

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Trappe TA, Ratchford SM, Brower BE, Liu SZ, Lavin KM, Carroll CC, Jemiolo B, Trappe SW.

COX inhibitor influence on skeletal muscle fiber size and metabolic adaptations to resistance exercise in older adults.

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2016 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26817469

Christen P, Schulte FA, Zwahlen A, van Rietbergen B, Boutroy S, Melton LJ 3rd, Amin S, Khosla S, Goldhahn J, Mller R.

Voxel size dependency, reproducibility and sensitivity of an in vivo bone loading estimation algorithm.

J R Soc Interface. 2016 Jan;13(114).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790999

Cucinotta FA, Cacao E, Alp M.

Space radiation quality factors and the delta ray dose and dose-rate reduction effectiveness factor.

Health Phys. 2016 Mar;110(3):262-6.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26808878

Yamanaka Y, Honma S, Honma KI.

Mistimed wheel running interferes with re-entrainment of circadian Per1 rhythms in the mouse skeletal muscle and lung.

Genes Cells. 2016 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26818910

Chuang SW, Chuang CH, Yu YH, King JT, Lin CT.

EEG alpha and gamma modulators mediate motion sickness-related spectral responses.

Int J Neural Syst. 2016 Jan 4:1650007. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790485

Xi W, Gong X, Yang Q, Yu H, Liou YC.

Pin1At regulates PIN1 polar localization and root gravitropism.

Nat Commun. 2016 Jan 21;7:10430.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26791759

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Yokawa K, Kagenishi T, Baluka F.

UV-B induced generation of reactive oxygen species promotes formation of BFA-induced compartments in cells of Arabidopsis root apices.

Front Plant Sci. 2015 Jan 13;6:1162.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793199

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

Yu HS, Kim JJ, Kim HW, Lewis MP, Wall I.

Impact of mechanical stretch on the cell behaviors of bone and surrounding tissues.

J Tissue Eng. 2015 Dec 29;6:2041731415618342. Review.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26798448

Note: This article may be obtained online without charge.

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