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Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Pages 251-252

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... Crew resource management Canadian Space Agency Committee on Space Biology and Medicine Crew Status and Support Tracker Central venous pressure Distal elongation zone (of a plant root) Deoxyribonucleic acid Electro enc ephalo graph Electrogastrogram Electrocardiograph Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Embryonic stem (cell)
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... Line-oriented flight training Magnetic resonance imaging National Academy of Sciences National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Space Development Agency of Japan National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements National Institutes of Health NASA Research Announcement National Research Council NASA Specialized Centers of Research and Training National Science Foundation Polymerase chain reaction Principal investigator Parathyroid hormone Red blood cell Relative biological effectiveness Ribonucleic acid Russian Space Agency Sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system Space Laboratory-Japan Spacelab for Life Sciences Space motion sickness Shuttle-Mir Space Program Solar particle event Tumor growth factor Tumor necrosis factor Vestibular ocular reflex, vestibulo-ocular reflex
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