Microgravity, Cell Shape and Gene Expression: State of the Art, Challenges and Prospects
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2026) | Viewed by 1893
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Interests: space medicine; space life sciences; physiology; cell biology; pharmacology; exercise; countermeasure; artificial gravity; space education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is anticipated that more humans will spend time in space in the future, and that the duration of stay will become longer. For this reason, the field of space medicine, which studies how the space environment affects the human body in the long term, is becoming even more important.
This Special Issue focuses on research on the effects of the space environment on living organisms. Space medical research includes not only space experiments but also analog experiments that simulate the space environment. Therefore, this Special Issue covers a wide range of research examining physiological mechanisms and gene expression in organisms and living beings both during space stays and through ground-based research. We welcome you to submit research on these topics.
Dr. Masahiro Terada
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microgravity
- space radiation
- closed environment
- space flight
- parabolic flight
- clinostat
- human
- rodent
- microorganism
- countermeasure
- artificial gravity
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