May 23, 2025PRESS RELEASE
Experiment that will be the basis for space experiments: Successfully preserve goldfish scales for a long period while maintaining cellular activity
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A collaborative research group, including Specially Appointed Professor Atsuhiko Hattori and Assistant Professor Yusuke Maruyama from Rikkyo University, has demonstrated that the activity of osteoblasts and osteoclasts present in goldfish (Carassius auratus) scales is maintained and they respond to gravity, even when the scales are sterilized with 0.1% hypochlorite and then stored at a low temperature (4°C) for more than a week without changing the culture medium.
The results of this research were published in the online version of the American international academic journal "Life Sciences in Space Research" on April 7, 2025.