Random Positioning Machines (RPMs) have been used since many years as a ground-based model to simulate microgravity. In this review we discuss several aspects of the RPM. Recent technological development has expanded the operative range of the RPM substantially. New possibilities of live cell imaging and partial gravity simulations, for example, are of particular interest. For obtaining valuabl...

Tissue engineering of chondrocytes on a Random Positioning Machine (RPM) is a new strategy for cartilage regeneration. Using a three-dimensional RPM, a device designed to simulate microgravity on Earth, we investigated the early effects of RPM exposure on human chondrocytes of six different donors after 30 min, 2 h, 4 h, 16 h, and 24 h and compared the results with the corresponding static cont...

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Synapses display a stereotyped ultrastructural organization, commonly containing a single electron-dense presynaptic density surrounded by a cluster of synaptic vesicles. The mechanism controlling subsynaptic proportion is not understood. Loss of function in the C. elegans rpm-1 gene, a putative RING finger/E3 ubiquitin ligase, causes disorganized presynaptic cytoarchitecture. RPM-1 is localize...

1 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Division, Sri Venkateswara College of Pharmacy, Etcherla, Srikakulam-532 410, INDIA 2 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Division, A U College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530 003, INDIA 3 Pharmaceutical Chemistry Division, Sri Venkateswara College of Pharmacy, Etcherla, Srikakulam-532 410, INDIA 4 Pharmaceutical Technology Division, A U ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between consumption of red and processed meat (RPM) and iron intakes and status in adults. DESIGN Further analysis of the Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults, a cross-sectional study of 2197 adults aged 16-64 years carried out in 1986/7. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Adults (836 men and 838 women) with serum ferritin measurements, who were not taking...