Synaptogenesis in Microgravity (NIH.Bl)

摘要

The flight experiment National Institutes of Health.Biology 1 (NIH.B1) was flown on the space transport system (STS-93) in late July, 1999. NASA Ames Research Center collaborated with BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA-sponsored Commercial Space Center (CSC), to develop an enhancement to the Group Activation Package (GAP) and the Isothermal Containment Module (ICM), flown within the Commercial Generic BioProcessing Apparatus (CGBA) payload. The collaboration evolved from the needs of both organizations to fly middeck experiments on the STS-93 mission. The NIH.B1 experiment was entitled 'Effects ot Spaceflight on Drosophila Neural Development,' and was led by Principal Investigator, Haig Keshishian, Harvard. This experiment was designed to investigate the effects of microgravity on a transgenic fruit fly line that expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP) to visualize singly identified motoneurons and their muscle targets.