NASA NTRS · 19880028950
Human blood platelets at microgravity
Abstract
A set of freshly collected and separated human platelet suspensions were transported, in three types of plastic containers, on a 6 day, 2 hr mission of the orbiter Columbia to study the effect of prolonged exposure of human blood cells to microgravity. A controlled environment at a temperature of 22 + or - 1 deg with air flow was provided and another set of samples held on the ground acted as controls. Paired comparisons of platelets at ug versus controls at lxg revealed superior platelet survival at microgravity. When viewed in terms of plastic type, ug platelets in containers fabricated from PVC-TOTM displayed the best overall postflight viability.
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Surgenor, D. MACN., Ausprunk, D., Blevins, D., Chao, F. C., Curby, W.. 1987-10-01. Human blood platelets at microgravity. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19880028950
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