Mamta Patel Nagaraja | Author | SciTechnol

Mamta Patel Nagaraja Author

mamta.nagaraja@nasa.gov 979-574-4562 | 979-574-4562

Subjects of specialization
Bone loss,Spaceflight,Disuse,Astronauts,Osteoporosis

Affiliation
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Biography

Dr. Mamta Patel Nagaraja currently works at NASA Headquarters in science communications for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and manages the Agency-wide Women@NASA program. Dr. Nagaraja leads external information technology, including public web presence, for SMD.

Publications

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The Human Skeletal System and Spaceflight Analogs

Author(s): Mamta Patel Nagaraja

The Human Skeletal System and Spaceflight Analogs

The human skeletal system is a dynamic system that plays vital roles in the sustenance of life. Bone loss is a phenomenon that occurs in humans both in short and in long term spaceflights. The phenotype can be also reproduced on the ground in human and animals and also modeled in cell-based analogs. With limited missions in space, experimental studies in these analogs have provided much of our understanding of bone loss.

DOI: 10.4172/2324-9293.1000107

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