Histological and Transcriptomic Analysis of Adult Japanese Medaka Sampled Onboard the International Space Station.

ABSTRACT: To understand how humans adapt to the space environment, many experiments can be conducted on astronauts as they work aboard the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station (ISS). We also need animal experiments that can apply to human models and help prevent or solve the health issues we face in space travel. The Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) is a suitable model fish for studying space adaptation as evidenced by adults of the species having mated successfully in space during 15 days of flight during the second International Microgravity Laboratory mission in 1994. The eggs laid by the fish developed normally and hatched as juveniles in space. In 2012, another space experiment ("Medaka Osteoclast") was conducted. Six-week-old male and female Japanese medaka (Cab strain osteoblast

SUBMITTER: Murata Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4591011 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature