A new project offers to pay volunteers nearly 13 lakh rupees to lie in bed for 60 days to help scientists study how weightlessness affects the human body.
German Aerospace Center (DLR) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has launched the Artificial Gravity Bed Rest Study (AGBRESA). The study will investigate the use of artificial gravity as a possible means of preventing the negative effects of weightlessness on the human body.
During the three-month study, two-thirds of the test participants will be rotated each day while lying in the DLR short-arm centrifuge in the medical research facility. The study participants will be paid 16,500 euros or nearly 13 lakh rupees.
The 12 female and 12 male volunteers will spend 60 days in the beds.
All experiments, meals, and leisure pursuits will take place lying down during the bed-rest phase. The participants will be restricted in their movements so that the strain on muscles, tendons and the skeletal system is reduced.
The beds are angled downwards towards the head end by six degrees. This will simulate the displacement of bodily fluids experienced by astronauts in a microgravity environment.
A large number of experiments will be conducted for this purpose on, among other things, cardiovascular function, balance and muscle strength, accompanied by cognitive tests and invasive examinations such as muscle tissue biopsies, microdialysis, measurement of electrical muscle activity and regular blood sampling.
German Aerospace Center (DLR) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has launched the Artificial Gravity Bed Rest Study (AGBRESA). The study will investigate the use of artificial gravity as a possible means of preventing the negative effects of weightlessness on the human body.
During the three-month study, two-thirds of the test participants will be rotated each day while lying in the DLR short-arm centrifuge in the medical research facility. The study participants will be paid 16,500 euros or nearly 13 lakh rupees.
The 12 female and 12 male volunteers will spend 60 days in the beds.
All experiments, meals, and leisure pursuits will take place lying down during the bed-rest phase. The participants will be restricted in their movements so that the strain on muscles, tendons and the skeletal system is reduced.
The beds are angled downwards towards the head end by six degrees. This will simulate the displacement of bodily fluids experienced by astronauts in a microgravity environment.
A large number of experiments will be conducted for this purpose on, among other things, cardiovascular function, balance and muscle strength, accompanied by cognitive tests and invasive examinations such as muscle tissue biopsies, microdialysis, measurement of electrical muscle activity and regular blood sampling.
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