Effects of artificial support stimulation on fiber and molecular characteristics of soleus muscle in men exposed to 7-day dry immersion
Litvinova, K.S.; Vikhlyantsev, I.M.; Kozlovskaya, I.B.; Podlubnaya, Z.A.; Shenkman, B.S.
Journal of Gravitational Physiology a Journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology 11(2): P131-P132
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 1077-9248 PMID: 16237813 Document Number: 569813
Artificial support stimulation is known to attenuate or prevent many motor or skeletal muscle effects of actual or simulated microgravity. The present study was purposed to analyze the effects of artificial support on human soleus fibers after 7-day exposure to supportless environment. 8 healthy male volunteers were exposed to dry immersion in supine position for 7 days according to Shulzhenko and Vil-Villiams (1972). 4 of them worn the support device which provided them with plantar stimulation in regime described elsewhere.