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{"title":"Drosophila melanogaster and the future of 'evo-devo' biology in space. Challenges and problems in the path of an eventual colonization project outside the earth.","authors":"Roberto Marco,&nbsp;David Husson,&nbsp;Raul Herranz,&nbsp;Jesús Mateos,&nbsp;F Javier Medina","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09003-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09003-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Space exploration, especially its future phase involving the International Space Station (ISS) makes possible the study of the effects on living systems of long-term expositions to such a strange environment. This phase is being initiated when Biological Sciences are crossing a no-return line into a new territory where the connection between phenotype and genotype may be finally made. We briefly review the paradoxical results obtained in Space experiments performed during the last third of the XX Century. They reveal that simple unicellular systems sense the absence of gravity changing their cytoskeletal organization and the signal transduction pathways, while animal development proceeds unaltered in these conditions, in spite of the fact that these processes are heavily involved in embryogenesis. Longer-term experiments possible in the ISS may solve this apparent contradiction. On the other hand, the current constraints on the scientific use of the ISS makes necessary the development of new hardware and the modification of current techniques to start taking advantage of this extraordinary technological facility. We discuss our advances in this direction using one of the current key biological model systems, Drosophila melanogaster. In addition, the future phase of Space exploration, possibly leading to the exploration and, may be, the colonization of another planet, will provide the means of performing interesting evolutionary experiments, studying how the terrestrial biological systems will change in their long-term adaptation to new, very different environments. In this way, Biological Research in Space may contribute to the advancement of the new Biology, in particular to the branch known as \"Evo-Devo\". On the other hand, as much as the Space Adventure will continue involving human beings as the main actors in the play, long-term multi-generation experiments using a fast reproducing species, such as Drosophila melanogaster, capable of producing more than 300 generations in 15 years, the useful life foreseen for ISS, will be important. Among other useful information, they will help in detecting the possible changes that a biological species may undergo in such an environment, preventing the uncontrolled occurrence of irreversible deleterious effects with catastrophic consequences on the living beings participating in this endeavour.</p>","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"9 ","pages":"41-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09003-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24087068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Morphogenesis and gravity in a whole amphibian embryo and in isolated blastomeres of sea urchins.","authors":"Akemi Izumi-Kurotani,&nbsp;Masato Kiyomoto","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09004-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09004-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fertilization and subsequent embryogenesis of newts occurred normally under microgravity in two Astronewt flight experiments. By accumulation of the results from the amphibian flight experiments including 'Astronewt', it is considered that gravity has rather small effects on the early development of amphibian eggs. However, some temporary abnormalities, which recover in the course of the further developmental process, have been observed. Some regulations may occur in whole embryos. For a thorough knowledge about the role of gravity in morphogenesis, we need to investigate the gravitational effects on a single cell in a whole embryo. We propose a new experimental system with sea urchin embryos and micromeres for further studies at a cellular level of the effects of gravity on morphogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"9 ","pages":"83-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09004-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24087069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developmental biology of urodele amphibians in microgravity conditions.","authors":"Christian Dournon","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09005-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09005-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among the urodele amphibians, only Cynops pyrrhogaster and Pleurodeles waltl, two species of the Salamandridae family, were used in space experiments. The advantages for using urodeles reside (i) in reproduction: a few months after natural breeding, females can lay eggs in absence of males after a hormonal treatment, because spermatozoa were preserved in the cloacal pelvic glands of matted females, (ii) in the rate of development which is slower in Cynops and Pleurodeles than in the anuran Xenopus, (iii) in their physiological properties: they can live in a closed water container or in a moisturized environment, and they can fast during several days. Moreover, urodeles have an important phylogenetic interest. Many biological phenomena differ from those of anurans, such as fertilization events, the germ cell origin and the migration toward the differentiating gonads, and their regeneration capabilities. The main goals of the space experiments were to answer the following questions. On the one hand, does fertilization occur normally in microgravity? Is subsequent embryonic development normal in microgravity? Is further development and reproduction normal after return to Earth? On the other hand, does microgravity affect the organs in adult animals? Does microgravity affect the regeneration of organs? Fertilization in space is clearly demonstrated. However, subsequent embryonic development appears to be altered in microgravity. In Pleurodeles, abnormalities such as cortical cytoplasmic movements, decrease of cell adhesion, and loss of cells were observed. Although, early development was not strictly normal as a consequence of embryological regulation phenomena, young hatching larvae had normal morphological phenotypes and swimming behavior. After landing, no differences were observed between born-in-space animals to standard ones during the embryonic development to adulthood. The analyses of their offspring demonstrated that the percentages of fertilization and development were in accordance with the control animals. No genetic abnormalities were detected during the analysis of the offspring. The development of their progenies were also without characteristic differences compared to control Pleurodeles. Microgravity seems to have effects on the morphological and histological structures of organs of flight adults. However, as was the case in several experiments the number of analyzed adults was low, and it is too early to conclude on specific effects of microgravity. Moreover, in certain flights the temperature was not regulated, and an increase in temperature occurred. Conditions of these space flights had certainly influenced the samples, and consequently the interpretations of results. Space flights have clear effects on organs in regeneration. But more specifically, they have long term effects that last several weeks after the return of the animals to Earth. A similar result was also obtained for otoconia several months after landing. So fa","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"9 ","pages":"101-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09005-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24087070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neurophysiology of developing fish at altered gravity: background--facts--perspectives.","authors":"Ralf H Anken","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09007-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09007-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the entire evolution of life on Earth, the phylogenetic as well as the individual development of all organisms took place under constant gravity conditions, against which they achieved specific countermeasures for compensation and adaptation. On the one side, gravity represents a factor of physical restriction, which compelled the ancestors of all extant living beings to develop basic achievements to counter the gravitational force (e.g., elements of statics like any kind of skeleton--from actin to bone--to overcome gravity enforced size limits or to keep form). On the other side, already early forms of life possibly used gravity as an appropriate cue for orientation and postural control, since it is continuously present and has a fixed direction. Due to such a thorough adaptation to the Earthly gravity vector, both orientation behaviour as well as the ontogenetic development of animals is impaired, when they have to experience altered gravity (delta g; i.e., hyper- or microgravity). On this background, it is still an open question to which extent delta g affects the normal individual development, either on the systemic level of the whole organism or on the level of individual organs or even single cells. The present review provides information on these questions, focusing on developing fish as model systems. Special emphasis is being laid on the effect of delta g on the developing brain and vestibular system, comprising investigations on behaviour and plastic reactivities of the brain and inner ear. Moreover, clues and insights into the possible basic causes of space motion sickness-phenomena (SMS; a kinetosis) are provided. Overall, the results speak in favour of the following concept: short-term altered gravity (< or = 1 day) can induce transitional aberrant behaviour due to malfunctions of the inner ear, originating from asymmetric otoliths or, generally, from a mismatch between canal and otolith afferents. The vanishing aberrant behaviour is due to a reweighing of sensory inputs and neurovestibular compensation, probably on bioelectrical basis. During long-term altered gravity (several days and more), step by step neuroplastic reactivities on molecular basis (i.e., molecular facilitation) in the brain and inner ears obviously activate feedback mechanisms between the CNS and the vestibular organs for the regain of normal behaviour. Mainly, the following areas of research with animals at altered gravity need to be addressed in the future: (1) Maintenance of animals through two complete life cycles in the space environment (developmental deficiencies?). (2) Investigation of the peripheral and central vestibular system by ground-based studies (mutants, hypergravity experiments...), focusing on plasticity in developing animals as well as in adults. (3) Investigation of the effect of microgravity during critical developmental periods (imprinting phase for graviperception?). Answers to these questions may be of crucial interest for bas","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"9 ","pages":"173-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(03)09007-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24088167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Microtubule self-organisation and its gravity dependence.","authors":"James Tabony,&nbsp;Nicolas Glade,&nbsp;Cyril Papaseit,&nbsp;Jacques Demongeot","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08014-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08014-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The molecular processes by which gravity affects biological systems are poorly, if at all, understood. Under equilibrium conditions, chemical and biochemical reactions do not depend upon gravity. It has been proposed that biological systems might depend on gravity by way of the bifurcation properties of certain types of non-linear chemical reactions that are far-from-equilibrium. In such reactions, the initially homogenous solution spontaneously self-organises by way of a combination of reaction and diffusion. Theoreticians have predicted that the presence or absence of an external field, such as gravity, at a critical moment early in the self-organising process may determine the morphology that subsequently develops. We have found that the formation in vitro of microtubules, a major element of the cellular skeleton, shows this type of behaviour. The microtubule preparations spontaneously self-organise by way of reaction and diffusion, and the morphology of the state that forms depends upon gravity at a critical bifurcation time early in the process. Experiments carried out under low gravity conditions show that the presence of gravity at the bifurcation time actually triggers the self-organising process. This is an experimental demonstration of how a very simple biochemical system, containing only two molecules, can be gravity sensitive. At a microscopic level the behaviour results from an interaction of gravity with the concentration and density fluctuations that arise from processes of microtubule shortening and elongation. We have developed a numerical reaction-diffusion scheme, based on the chemical dynamics of a population of microtubules, that simulate self-organisation. These simulations provide insight into how self-organisation occurs at a microscopic level and how gravity triggers this process. Recent experiments on cell lines cultured in space suggest that microtubule organisation may not occur properly under low gravity conditions. As microtubule organisation is essential to cellular function, it is quite plausible that the type of processes described in this article provide an underlying explanation for the gravity dependence of living systems at a cellular level.</p>","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"19-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08014-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Osteogenesis in altered gravity.","authors":"Ranieri Cancedda,&nbsp;Anita Muraglia","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08018-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08018-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"159-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08018-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Space cell physiology and space biotechnology in Russia.","authors":"Anatoly I Grigoriev,&nbsp;Yury T Kalinin,&nbsp;Ludmilla B Buravkova,&nbsp;Oleg V Mitichkin","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08021-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08021-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"215-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08021-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gravity-related behaviour in ciliates and flagellates.","authors":"Ruth Hemmersbach,&nbsp;Richard Bräucker","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08015-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08015-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"59-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08015-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The cytoskeleton, apoptosis, and gene expression in T lymphocytes and other mammalian cells exposed to altered gravity.","authors":"Marian L Lewis","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08016-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08016-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"77-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08016-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spaceflight bioreactor studies of cells and tissues.","authors":"Lisa E Freed,&nbsp;Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic","doi":"10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08019-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08019-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies of the fundamental role of gravity in the development and function of biological organisms are a central component of the human exploration of space. Microgravity affects numerous physical phenomena relevant to biological research, including the hydrostatic pressure in fluid filled vesicles, sedimentation of organelles, and buoyancy-driven convection of flow and heat. These physical phenomena can in turn directly and indirectly affect cellular morphology, metabolism, locomotion, secretion of extracellular matrix and soluble signals, and assembly into functional tissues. Studies aimed at distinguishing specific effects of gravity on biological systems require the ability to: (i) control and systematically vary gravity, e.g. by utilizing the microgravity environment of space in conjunction with an in-flight centrifuge; and (ii) maintain constant all other factors in the immediate environment, including in particular concentrations and exchange rates of biochemical species and hydrodynamic shear. The latter criteria imply the need for gravity-independent mechanisms to provide for mass transport between the cells and their environment. Available flight hardware has largely determined the experimental design and scientific objectives of spaceflight cell and tissue culture studies carried out to date. Simple culture vessels have yielded important quantitative data, and helped establish in vitro models of cell locomotion, growth and differentiation in various mammalian cell types including embryonic lung cells [6], lymphocytes [2,8], and renal cells [7,31]. Studies done using bacterial cells established the first correlations between gravity-dependent factors such as cell settling velocity and diffusional distance and the respective cell responses [12]. The development of advanced bioreactors for microgravity cell and tissue culture and for tissue engineering has benefited both research areas and provided relevant in vitro model systems for studies of astronaut well-being (loss of muscle and skeletal tissues [15-17]) and gene- and cell-level responses to the mechanical environment [13,14,18]. All five of the spaceflight bioreactor studies described above utilized three-dimensional cell culture systems in which the cells were associated with biodegradable polymer scaffolds [17], collagen gel [16], or microcarrier beads [13-15,18] in order to promote the expression of differentiated cell function. In four of the five spaceflight bioreactor studies [15-18], cells were cultured in perfused vessels (cartridges or rotating bioreactors) within recirculating loops designed to maintain medium composition within target ranges by a combination of gas exchange and fresh medium supply. Future spaceflight studies of cells and tissues are likely to involve a three-dimensional culture system, to promote cellular differentiation, and perfusion with or without rotation, to provide a gravity-independent mechanism for fluid mixing and mass transport. Previous","PeriodicalId":76982,"journal":{"name":"Advances in space biology and medicine","volume":"8 ","pages":"177-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08019-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22556992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}