Abstract
Living organisms are always exposed and respond to various stresses from the external world - the environment, such as temperature, gravity, radiation or circadian. Understanding and addressing the effects of the environment on human health is a major issue. To clarify this issue, we are studying both human and medaka. Medaka is a good model organism to verify the effects of the space environment for their features including their short life cycle, productivity, mapped whole genome sequences, and transparency even in adults. We are trying to evaluate the heartbeat using transparent medaka with live imaging. Despite the importance of functions of internal organs, its observation has been difficult. Imaging technologies has developed remarkably in a decade. With the retirement of the space shuttle, experimental procedures without sample collection will be required. We established an approach to acquire the images and the methodology of the analysis from high-speed movies. We are subsequently going to introduce a method of verifying the movement of internal organs in medaka experiments using high-speed movies.
