Pathomorphological and Histochemical Changes in the Organs of Turtles on Board the Automatic Station 'Zond-5 '

摘要

The Zond 5 automatic station carried two steppe turtles on a circumlunar flight. Two turtles were subjected to the same ground transport as the experimental group and four specimens were retained in the vivarium as an undisturbed control sample. Hematological, pathomorphological, histochemical and EKG procedures were used to investigate the biological effects of space flight and ground disturbance on the animals. A process using combined tissue blocks from different animals for histological and histochemical studies is described. Tissue photo micrographs illustrate the findings. The use of the disturbed control group made it possible to separate changes due to spaceflight from those due to transport and caging on the ground. (Fifteen figures are included in the parent document, which is available on microfiche). (Author)