[Effect of weightlessness and artificial gravitation on morphological manifestations of the adrenal cortex reaction in rats after space flight on board the biosatellite "Cosmos-936"]

Abstract

Comparing the changes revealed in the adrenals of rats subjected to weightlessness and artificial gravitation, it has been stated that rotation of the animals in the centrifuge, while flying (with an acceleration of lg), prevents development of morphological stress reaction as a response to landing. After the effect of weightlessness, return to normal gravitation is accompanied with definite signs of an acute stress-reaction in the rat adrenal cortex. Differences in the adrenal reaction of the animals of the groups compared speak in favour of the fact that application of artificial gravitation in an orbital space flight contributes to level the changes resulting from weightlessness and, hence, increase the organism's stability to stress effects, while returning to the Earth.