Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth

The space flight environment is known to induce bone loss and, subsequently, calcium loss. The longer the mission, generally the more bone and calcium are lost. This review provides a history of bone and calcium studies related to space flight and highlights issues related to calcium excretion that...

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Autores principales: Smith, Scott M., McCoy, Torin, Gazda, Daniel, Morgan, Jennifer L. L., Heer, Martina, Zwart, Sara R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23250146
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu4122047
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Heer, Martina
Zwart, Sara R.
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description The space flight environment is known to induce bone loss and, subsequently, calcium loss. The longer the mission, generally the more bone and calcium are lost. This review provides a history of bone and calcium studies related to space flight and highlights issues related to calcium excretion that the space program must consider so that urine can be recycled. It also discusses a novel technique using natural stable isotopes of calcium that will be helpful in the future to determine calcium and bone balance during space flight.
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spelling pubmed-35466222013-01-23 Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth Smith, Scott M. McCoy, Torin Gazda, Daniel Morgan, Jennifer L. L. Heer, Martina Zwart, Sara R. Nutrients Review The space flight environment is known to induce bone loss and, subsequently, calcium loss. The longer the mission, generally the more bone and calcium are lost. This review provides a history of bone and calcium studies related to space flight and highlights issues related to calcium excretion that the space program must consider so that urine can be recycled. It also discusses a novel technique using natural stable isotopes of calcium that will be helpful in the future to determine calcium and bone balance during space flight. MDPI 2012-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3546622/ /pubmed/23250146 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu4122047 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth
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