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considering it as a potential tool for maintaining paralysis. After a mouse returns from long-term
human health for long-duration spaceflight. spaceflight to Earth, it is also possible to observe its
Recently, locomotive syndrome, which involves the recovery from symptoms that are very much like aging.
weakening of bones, muscles and other organs related These conditions are difficult to reproduce on Earth
to movement, has become an area of increasing and can be used to investigate effects on bone mass,
interest. Through JAXA Mouse Habitat missions muscle strength, immune suppression and others
on Kibo, we will be able to identify factors for early that are similar to age-related symptoms.
diagnosis of such age-related diseases and perform Mouse studies on the ISS provide an accelerated
pre-clinical studies to investigate the efficacy and platform for research on aging. In upcoming years,
safety of prophylactic and therapeutic drug candidates. JAXA Mouse Habitat missions will aim at developing
Since aging phenomena occur 10 to 30 times faster and verifying bioinfomatics to discover scientific
in space than those observed on Earth, whole-body technologies for early disease detection, and will
effects in such an environment can be observed without lead to the discovery of innovative preventive and
unnatural conditions such as altered genetics or partial therapeutic drugs.

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