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Title(s): NMRI: meeting fleet needs through research
NMRI : meeting the fleet needs through reasearch
Author(s): United States. Navy
Naval School of Health Sciences (U.S.)
Publication
Date: 		1987
Publication
Information: 		Bethesda, Md. : Naval School of Health Sciences, 1987
Language(s): English
Format: Moving image; 019 min.; Sound; Color
Subject(s): Naval Medical Research Institute (U.S.)
Naval Medicine
Biomedical Research
Rights: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Identifier(s): See catalog record: 101257872
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101257872
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Description: This videotape profiles the Naval Medical Research Institute. The Institute develops modalities that meet the needs of the U.S. Navy in war and peace. The tape discusses using computers and developing therapeutic agents and a vaccine for septic shock. The Institute has developed an extensive tissue bank and investigated repair of bone marrow damage and the use of stem cells in various treatments. In addition, the Institute studies the effect of heat and cold on the body, decompression sickness, and oxygen toxicity. The Institute focuses on vaccine development for infectious diseases such as malaria and typhus. The tape also shows examples of the Institute's international labs. For example, the lab in Lima, Peru studies infectious diseases among the Amazon natives. There is extensive laboratory, equipment, and technician footage.

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