Cytological mechanisms of gravity-dependent changes in a bone tissue

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Space Life Sciences
1Rodionova, NV, 2Oganov, VS
1I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2SSC RF «Institute of Medical and Biological Problems» RAS, Moscow, Russia
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2002, 8 ;(5-6):071-076
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2002.05.071
Publication Language: English
Abstract: 
The study was made of main changes in the osteoblasts and osteocytes ultrastructure in bone tissue cells of monkeys (Macaca mulatta), flown for two weeks aboard the biosatellite BION-11. By the use of methods of electron microscopy, cytochemistry and morphometry we researched biopsy material of an iliac bone. It was established by ultrastructural indexes that under microgravity conditions in the osteoblasts population little active forms (4th morphofunctional type) prevail. Also we discovered osteoblasts of a fibroblastic type and local zones of fibrosis. In the osteocytes population we found not only typical cells but also octeocytes with developed RER. Processes of osteocytic osteolysis increased.
Keywords: cytological mechanisms, osteoblasts, osteocytes
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