Central hemodynamics in a baboon model during microgravity induced by parabolic flight

• Published in: Advances in space research Vol. 14; no. 8; pp. 349 - 358
• Main Authors: Latham, R.D., Fanton, J.W., Vernalis, M.N., Gaffney, F.A., Crisman, R.P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.01.1994
• Subjects: Animals; Blood Volume - drug effects; Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; Central Venous Pressure - physiology; Furosemide - pharmacology; Hemodynamics - physiology; Male; Papio - physiology; Sodium Chloride - pharmacology; Space Flight; Space life sciences; Supine Position; Weightlessness; NASA Discipline Cardiopulmonary; NASA Discipline Number 00-00; NASA Program Flight; NASA Program Space Physiology and Countermeasures; NASA Discipline Number 14-10; Non-NASA Center

We developed a chronically instrumented nonhuman primate model (baboon) to evaluate the central cardiovascular responses to transient microgravity induced by parabolic flight. Instrumentation provided simultaneous recording of high fidelity (Ao) and pulmonary artery (PA) pressures, right and left ve...