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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 244: R319-R326, 1983;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 244, Issue 3 319-R326, Copyright © 1983 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of spaceflight on the non-weight-bearing bones of rat skeleton

D. J. Simmons, J. E. Russell, F. Winter, P. Tran Van, A. Vignery, R. Baron, G. D. Rosenberg and W. V. Walker

Male Wistar rats prelabeled with tetracycline to mark surfaces of bone and tooth formation-mineralization were placed into orbit for 18.5 days aboard the Soviet COSMOS-1129 Biosatellite. They were injected with tetracycline for a second and third time on the 6th and 27th days, respectively, after recovery of the Biosatellite. Spaceflight did not alter the rate of periosteal bone formation in the non-weight-bearing ribs and regions of the mandibles, which were covered by masticatory muscles. Bone formation-calcification rates were impaired at those sites in the jaw that had no contiguous muscle (molar region). The remodeling activity on the alveolar bone around the buccal roots of the molar teeth was significantly reduced but without creating a negative balance between formative and resorptive activities. Total Ca, P, and hydroxyproline concentrations in the jaws, incisors, and ribs were normal after spaceflight, but gravity density fractionation studies indicated that in the jaws alone, O-G conditions caused a delay in the maturation of bone mineral and matrix. A 29-day postflight recovery period at earth's gravity was sufficient to fully correct these anomalies. Relative to tooth formation, relatively normal circadian and infradian biorhythmic periodicities of Ca and P in dentin and enamel were maintained during spaceflight. We conclude that most of the non-weight-bearing bones of the rat skeleton are at risk to the effects of hypogravity.


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