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Mice flown on the International Space Station in microgravity experience bone loss mostly in weight-bearing bones, which might help inform human acclimation to spaceflight

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37-Day microgravity exposure in 16-Week female C57BL/6J mice is associated with bone loss specific to weight-bearing skeletal sites

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MicroCT images of the femoral head bone and cartilage in ground control (GC) versus spaceflight (FLT), showing premature secondary ossification in microgravity.

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Credit: Eduardo Almeida, Rukmani Cahill and Elizabeth Blaber, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL: https://plos.io/3FxPQEj

Article title: 37-Day microgravity exposure in 16-Week female C57BL/6J mice is associated with bone loss specific to weight-bearing skeletal sites

Author countries: US

Funding: Supported by NASA Space Biology Grant NNH14ZTT001N14-14SF to EACA. The funder did not play any role in the study design, data collection, analysis and manuscript preparation, or in the decision to submit for publication. https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology/


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