Dietary intervention of mice using an improved Multiple Artificial-gravity Research System (MARS) under artificial 1

Biological sciences Health care

Journal

NPJ microgravity
ISSN: 2373-8065
Titre abrégé: NPJ Microgravity
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101703605

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 06 09 2018
accepted: 16 05 2019
entrez: 18 7 2019
pubmed: 18 7 2019
medline: 18 7 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has developed mouse habitat cage units equipped with an artificial gravity-producing centrifuge, called the Multiple Artificial-gravity Research System (MARS), that enables single housing of a mouse under artificial gravity (AG) in orbit. This is a report on a hardware evaluation. The MARS underwent improvement in water leakage under microgravity (MG), and was used in the second JAXA mouse mission to evaluate the effect of AG and diet on mouse biological system simultaneously. Twelve mice were divided into four groups of three, with each group fed a diet either with or without fructo-oligosaccharide and housed singly either at 1 

Identifiants

pubmed: 31312718
doi: 10.1038/s41526-019-0077-0
pii: 77
pmc: PMC6614370
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

16

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interestsWe declare that none of the authors has competing financial or non-financial interests.

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Auteurs

Chie Matsuda (C)

Space Biomedical Research Group, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Tamotsu Kato (T)

Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.
3Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.

Sayo Inoue-Suzuki (S)

4Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan.
Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.

Jun Kikuchi (J)

5Environmental Metabolic Analysis Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan.
3Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.

Toshiko Ohta (T)

Space Biomedical Research Group, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.
Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.
4Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan.

Masaharu Kagawa (M)

4Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan.

Masahira Hattori (M)

Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.
6Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroe Kobayashi (H)

Space Biomedical Research Group, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Dai Shiba (D)

JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Masaki Shirakawa (M)

JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Hiroyasu Mizuno (H)

JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Satoshi Furukawa (S)

Space Biomedical Research Group, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Chiaki Mukai (C)

Space Biomedical Research Group, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan.

Hiroshi Ohno (H)

Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Yokohama, Japan.
3Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.

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