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Hemopoiesis in bone marrow of monkeys after spaceflight
T E Burkovskaya1, V I Korolkov
1RF SRC--Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia.
Journal of Gravitational Physiology : a Journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology
|September 7, 2001
Abstract:
In six rhesus monkeys flown on Bion 9, 10, and 11, peripheral blood and bone marrow were examined. After the Bion 11 flight, two ground control experiments were performed at R+17 and R+45. The real flight caused changes that were not seen after the control experiments: decreases in hemoglobin, hematocrit, and reticulocytes. During the readaptation period, those parameters returned to normal due to stimulated erythropoiesis and myelopoiesis.