Word: ede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin C. Moore-ede, assistant professor of Physiology at the Medical School, heads a project investigating why astronauts lose considerable potassium in space--a condition that strains the heart...
Launching a group of rhesus monkeys with the shuttle's Spacelab in 1984, Moore-ede believes he will confirm his finding that a shift of blood in the monkeys from the lower extremities to the torso because of changes in gravity accelerates their loss of fluids and purges high levels of potassium...
Although astronauts drink potassiumrien Tang to counteract their loss of the mineral in space. Morre-ede says the mineral supplements are often insufficient and a mere stop-gap to a problem experiments may solve...
...zero-gravity, potassium loss experiment joins projects researching the causes for spacesickness and calcium loss in the bone as primary projects in NASA's attempts to make space more friendly to man. Morre-ede said yesterday...