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Spatially resolved transcriptional analysis of hearts from mice flown on the RR-3 mission

Metadata Updated: February 6, 2026

The Rodent Research-3 (RR-3) mission was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co. and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to study the effectiveness of a potential countermeasure for the loss of muscle and bone mass that occurs during spaceflight. Twenty BALB/c 18-weeks old female mice (ten controls and ten treated) were flown to the ISS and housed in the Rodent Habitat for 39-42 days. Twenty mice of similar age sex and strain were used for ground controls housed in identical hardware and matching ISS environmental conditions. Basal controls were housed in standard vivarium cages. Spaceflight ground controls and basal groups had blood collected then were euthanized had one hind limb removed and finally whole carcasses were stored at -80 C until dissection. All mice in this data set received only the control/sham injection. Spatially resolved transcriptional profiles were generated from hearts from three flight and three ground control animals as follows. Hearts were cryosectioned longitudinally onto an array of capture probes that bind RNA fixed stained and visualized. Heart sections were then permeabilized to release RNA onto the capture probes and cDNA synthesized on the chip so that its spatial arrangement is encoded within a set of molecular barcodes. cDNA was then released and sequenced. Four to five levels of each heart was analyzed in this manner to allow a 3D reconstruction of the transcriptome.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Metadata Created Date February 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026
Data Update Frequency irregular

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 1, 2023
Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier nasa_genelab_GLDS-270_xshw-2nyf
Data First Published 2021-05-21
Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 995f69c4-4139-4a90-99af-67f1545b1101
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/spatially-resolved-transcriptional-analysis-of-hearts-from-mice-flown-on-the-rr-3-mission
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 026:005
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 1b20e6e574e534e957e3fd54f760d019cd3601cc43054729c85b44ea80196874
Source Schema Version 1.1

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