{"title":"[Changes in postural control mechanism after a long-time tilt].","authors":"Kazue Hida, Yasuyuki Nomura, Yoshiharu Watanabe, Makoto Igarashi, Manabu Mogitate, Masamichi Sudoh, Chiharu Sekiguchi, Akinori Kida","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to investigate the time-dependent dynamics of otolith organ-spinomotor function, we analyzed postural control biomechanically, in eight healthy adult volunteers, using a dynamic posturography (EquiTest System), before and after a four-hours lateral head and body tilt (90 degrees). After the tilt, a half of the subjects exhibited some changes. Their equilibrium scores decreased; i.e., the dependence on their vestibular inputs decreased, but in contrast, those on the visual and the somatosensory inputs increased. These changes were diminished by repeating the tests along the time course. The present findings confirmed [correction of comfirmed] the importance of vestibular gravity information for the maintenance of delicate postural stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"39 1","pages":"219-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359361","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":"[Decompression sickness during extravehicular activity on the International Space Station].","authors":"K Shimada","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"38 3","pages":"99-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359289","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":"Aircraft cabin air quality: an overview [correction of overvier].","authors":"R B Rayman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, there have been increasing complaints from cockpit crew, cabin crew, and passengers that the cabin air quality of commercial aircraft is deficient. A myriad of complaints including headache, fatigue, fever, and respiratory difficulties among many others have been registered, particularly by flight attendants on long haul routes. There is also much concern today regarding the transmission of contagious disease inflight, particularly tuberculosis. The unanswered question is whether these complaints are really due to poor cabin air quality or to other factors inherent inflight such as lowered barometric pressure, hypoxia, low humidity, circadian dysynchrony, work/rest cycles, vibration etc. This paper will review some aspects relevant to cabin air quality such as carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3), particulates, and microorganisms as well as the cabin ventilation system to discern if there is a possible cause and effect of illness contracted inflight. The paper will conclude with recommendations on how the issue of cabin air quality may be resolved.</p>","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"38 1","pages":"9-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359287","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":"[A simple dosimetry method for biological experiments on the International Space Station].","authors":"H Yasuda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For interpretation of results from future biological experiments in the International Space Station (ISS), radiation doses received by the biological samples must be accurately determined. This paper demonstrates that small integrating detectors, such as thermoluminescent dosemeters (TLDs) and glasses, can be used in a simple way for evaluation of biological doses from space radiation. Statistical errors (type-A uncertainty) of this method would be satisfactorily small relative to those generally observed in biological responses. Permissible levels of systematic errors (type-B uncertainty) should depend on both dosimetry purpose (most-probable or conventional evaluation) and reproducibility of the biological responses. It is expected that this method will be suitably applied to future experiments in the ISS where any instruments have to be small-scale, light-weight, physico-chemically stable and simple in handling.</p>","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"38 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359363","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":"[Relaxative effects of supine floating on heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac autonomic nervous [correction of nerveous] system activity].","authors":"M Nishimura, S Onodera","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to make clear the relaxative effects of supine floating (SF) on heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac autonomic nervous activity in males. Ten males served as subjects (n=10, mean age: 22.4 yrs). All subjects gave informed consent before participating. Water and room temperature were 30 degrees C. Heart rate and blood pressure were measured during SF or control (C) conditions. Cardiac autonomic nerve activity was estimated with the power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) by using the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT). High frequency (HF; 0.15-0.40 Hz) and the ratio of low frequency (LF; 0.04-0.15 Hz) to HF (LF/HF) were used as an indicator of cardiac vagal activity and sympatho-vagal balance, respectively. Those values were showed logarithmically (LogHF and LogLF/LogHF). LogHF during SF condition was significantly increased, LogLF/LogHF, heart rate and blood pressure were significantly decreased. These data indicate that cardiac vagal activity is enhanced and sympathetic nervous activity is suppressed by reciprocal response.</p>","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"37 3","pages":"49-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359362","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":"[Psychological characteristics of unsuccessful pilot trainees].","authors":"N Matsunaga, T Kabashima, I Asukata, K Shirahama","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some pilot trainees can not pass flight examinations and are obliged to give up their flight training because of their insufficient technical skills. We investigated their results of group Rorschach test (a multiple-choice test with ink blots which are similar to those for face-to-face Rorschach test). Subjects were 20 male pilot trainees (F (fail) group: mean age 22.6 +/- 1.5 years) who were obliged to give up their flight trainings between 1985 and 1996 because of their insufficient technical skills. The control group was made up of 125 male pilot trainees (P (pass) group: mean age 22.4 +/- 1.7 years) who were the successful classmates of the unsuccessful trainees. We investigated the differences of the results of group Rorschach test given for employment screening between the two groups. All results of the scores in group Rorschach test were within normal limits both in P group and F group. There, however, were following significant differences between the two groups: (1) F group showed more Key- responses than P group (F group: 4.9 +/- 2.1 P group: 3.4 +/- 2.0, p<0.01). (2) F group showed more k responses than P group (F group: 0.2 +/- 0.4 P group: 0.02 +/- 0.1, p<0.01). (3) P group showed more FC' responses than F group (F group: 1.4 +/- 1.0 P group: 2.2 +/- 1.2, p<0.01). (4) F group showed more cF responses than P group (F group: 1.6 +/- 1.2 P group: 1.0 +/- 0.9, p<0.05). (5) P group showed higher form level than F group (F group: 120.6 +/- 15.8 P group: 128.2 +/- 12.6, p<0.05). The pilot trainees in F group were suggested to have vulnerability to be nervous and anxious in an inexperienced situation, to decline their ability to cope objectively and effectively with a new situation, and to increase desire for dependence upon others.</p>","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22359288","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}
T. Sasaki, K. Iwasaki, K. Hirayanagi, N. Yamaguchi, A. Miyamoto, K. Yajima
{"title":"Effects of daily 2-Gz load on human cardiovascular function during weightlessness simulation using 4-day head-down bed rest.","authors":"T. Sasaki, K. Iwasaki, K. Hirayanagi, N. Yamaguchi, A. Miyamoto, K. Yajima","doi":"10.11501/3166501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11501/3166501","url":null,"abstract":"An onboard short arm human centrifuge has been proposed as a countermeasure against physiological problems during long exposure to weightlessness in space and during extra planetary exploration. However, there are few studies on the effects of intermittent application of a Gz load via centrifuge during weightlessness. The present study evaluated the effects of a daily 2-Gz load on cardiovascular function during simulated weightlessness using a 4-day head-down bed rest (HDBR) period. Twelve young male subjects were exposed a HDBR period. Eight of them were exposed to a Gz load for up to 30 min twice per day (the Gz group). The remaining 4 were not exposed to a Gz load; they served as controls (the no-Gz group). Compared with the pre-HDBR period, the no-Gz group showed percent changes in the RR interval, the standard deviation (SD) of the RR interval, parasympathetic nervous activity, and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) that progressively decreased and reached significance at the end of the HDBR period (-5.96 +/- 2.60%, -33.82 +/- 9.60%, -46.3 +/- 12.7% and -30.9 +/- 7.2%, respectively). In the Gz group, however, the percent changes in the RR interval, the SD of the RR interval, parasympathetic nervous activity, and BRS showed no significant changes throughout the HDBR period. At the end of the HDBR period, these indexes were 2.22 +/- 2.21%, -2.31 +/- 12.28%, 5.08 +/- 14.82% and 10.6 +/- 12.5%, respectively, and significantly greater than those of the no-Gz group. Sympathovagal balance indicators showed no significant change in the Gz and no-Gz groups (5.17 +/- 12.85% and 18.5 +/- 10.7%, respectively). These results indicate that a daily load of 2-Gz eliminates reduction of the RR interval, the SD of the RR interval, parasympathetic nervous activity, and BRS, and that it can maintain autonomic cardiovascular function in short-term weightlessness.","PeriodicalId":83384,"journal":{"name":"Uchu koku kankyo igaku","volume":"36 3 1","pages":"113-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64447702","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}