Biochemical changes occurring with adaptation to accelerative forces during rotation.
- 1 January 1966
- dataset
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA)
- Vol. 37 (12) , 1205-+
- https://doi.org/10.1037/e465652004-001
Abstract
The effects of periodically increasing rotational velocity were studied in 4 young naval officers in the Pensacola Slow Rotation Room. Stress effects originating in the vestibular region as the result of Coriolis forces produced adrenalcortical response, nausea, and mild hyperventilation. Adaptation was virtually complete after 2 days of rotation at 6.4 RPM, and no further stress effects from rotational forces could be measured although the velocity was increased incrementally each day to 10.0 RPM and then similarly decreased to 3.0 RPM. After adaptation the effects of continued inactivity were measured as decreased excretion of norephinephrine and mild degrees of hypercapnia and hyperalciuria.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: