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Experiment/Payload Overview

Information provided courtesy of the Energia website.
Brief Summary

MBI-9 (Pulse) is a cardiological assessment which collects data on arterial blood pressure and an electrocardiogram is performed to better understand the effects of weightlessness on the human cardiorespiratory system.

Principal Investigator

I. I. Funtova, Ph.D., Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Moscow, , Russia

Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

Information Pending

Payload Developer Information Pending

Sponsoring Space Agency

Roscosmos

Sponsoring Organization:

Information Pending

ISS Expedition Duration:

June 2002 - April 2007

Expeditions Assigned

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Previous ISS Missions

Information Pending

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Experiment/Payload Description

Research Summary

Information Pending

Description

Acquisition of new scientific information to extend ideas about mechanisms of cardio-respiratory system adaptation to long-duration space flights.

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Applications

Space Applications

Information Pending

Earth Applications

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Operations

Operational Requirements

Pulse Kit, Laptop, Pulse Pouch.

Operational Protocols

Study of impact of long-duration space flight factors on the functional state of cardiovascular and respiratory systems of cosmonauts by using computer modifications of electrocardiography, sphygmography and pneumotachography. Study of control processes for the cardiorespiratory system. Control of cardioresparatory homeostasis indices (average pulse rate, cardiac output and stroke volume, phase structure of the cardiac cycle, systole efficiency, average respiration rate, volumetric and rate characteristics of the expired air). Control of indices of the control system of the cardiorespiratory system.

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Results/More Information

Improvement of the cosmonauts' medical supervision system in a long-duration flight. Development of new criteria for prognostic assessment of probable violations of cardiorespiratory homeostasis.

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Related Web Sites

Energia - Science Research on the ISS Russian Segment

Coordinating Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency [Russian]

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Publications

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Ground Based Results Publications

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ISS Patent Publications

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Related Publications

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Images

The Pulse Kit.

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