Short Title:
Otoconia
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Health Countermeasures
Funding Status:
Completed - Task completed and produced a deliverable
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Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
Apply scanning and transmission electron microscopy and microstructural-crystallographic techniques to evaluate the possible mechanisms of otoconia restructuring in response to gravity loading and answer the following questions:
1) Are there structural changes in otoconia as a result of experimental altered gravity conditions?
2) If so, is the change due to a constructive or destructive process?
3) And, is the process dependent on length of exposure to altered gravity loading?
Other Resources
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Yes
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
This task contributed to gap closure by providing evidence that there are inner ear otoconia structural changes due to long-duration altered gravity exposures. (hyper- and hypo-gravity).
Internal Customers:
Human Health Countermeasures
External Customers:
None