Moscow - SANA

Roscosmos announced that its astronauts aboard the International Space Station conducted experiments and medical examinations to verify the functioning of the digestive system in zero gravity conditions.

The Russian cosmonaut on board the station, Dmitry Betelin, was quoted by the Russian website Vesti as saying: "The members of the Russian crew on the International Space Station conducted some medical examinations, and examined various parts of the digestive system with ultrasound in zero gravity conditions."

Betilin noted that specialists on the ground described the data obtained by the pioneers from these tests as very valuable.

According to the available information, the experiments and examinations carried out by the Russian astronauts are aimed at studying the structural and functional state of different sections of the digestive system, in order to determine the characteristics of changes in the digestive system that may occur during space flight, and that the medical device they used in the examinations was developed at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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