How will we walk? SLOWLY

I have just seen this article at
http://shot.com/docs/spaceresearch_v2n3june2003_low.pdf where it is
suggested that immune response is weakened because the bones are
weakened and many cells involved in immune response, like macrophages,
come from the bone marrow. Well, considering the Rube Goldberg-machine
design of the human body, that kinda makes sense. :-)

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:53:44 -0500, Combs, Mike wrote:
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> NASA has done studies on Earth where prolonged bed-rest was used to simulate prolonged exposure to 0-G. Therefore I would surmise that NASA would not be attributing the depression of the immune system to 0-G if their Earth-bound experiments had failed to turn up a same or similar effect.
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> Regards,
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> Mike Combs
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