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Current Areas of Space-Related Health Research
• Basic Bone Biology – the role of the osteocyte in sensing the loading environment – potential new
target for interventions to prevent bone loss.
• Muscle Cell Biology and Disuse Atrophy– signaling pathways, transcriptional control and gene expression events that
regulate hypertrophy/atrophy and fiber type determination/selection in response to exercise or disuse.
• Regenerative Medicine for Musculoskeletal Injuries– tissue engineering that could have a diagnostic application where the
engineered tissue is used as a biosensor reporting musculoskeletal injuries.
Presenter: Dr. Joan McGowan
Agency/Organization: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Promising Areas for Space-Related Health Research Collaborations
• Bone Quality/Bone Strength– NIAMS has begun a Collaborative Initiative on Bone Strength
(CIBS) to focus on new and emerging techniques to assess bone strength non-invasively.
• Genetic Approaches to Understanding the Relationship of Bone Mass to Loading– Inbred mouse studies are revealing genes that control the
response of bone and muscle to loading and exercise.
• Clinical Intervention Studies to Arrest Bone and Muscle Loss on Earth and in Space– High frequency, low magnitude electromagnetic stimulation – Nutritional tools to minimize bone loss in microgravity
Existing Resources to Facilitate Space-Related Health Research
• Animal Models – to study the effect of loading on bone and muscle - especially
mouse genetic models.
• Human Cohort Studies – to determine nutritional and other environmental exposures that
regulate bone and muscle mass.
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