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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
[Regulation of the human cardiovascular system under microgravitation]
Abstract:
The paper presents the results of studies of the cardiovascular system and analyzes the mechanisms of regulation and adaptation of this system during long-term space flights. Special attention is given to the analysis of the homeostatic mechanisms for maintaining a number of integrative parameters of the cardiovascular system at the pre- and near-flight level and to the mechanisms of development of orthostatic detraining character after flights. How a new level of circulatory function in the absence of microgravitation is formed is shown.
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