The immune system in space : are we prepared? / Alexander Choukèr, Oliver Ullrich.
2016
RC1151.I45
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Title
The immune system in space : are we prepared? / Alexander Choukèr, Oliver Ullrich.
Author
Choukèr, Alexander, author.
ISBN
9783319414669 (electronic book)
3319414666 (electronic book)
9783319414645
331941464X
3319414666 (electronic book)
9783319414645
331941464X
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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RC1151.I45
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.07/9
Summary
This book gives insight into the mechanism of the immune system and the influence of the environment on earth. Further, the book explains the changes that occur in our immune system in the absence of gravity and their fundamental consequences. Several limiting factors for human health and performance in microgravity have been clearly identified as an unacceptable risk for long-term and interplanetary flights. Serious concerns arose whether spaceflight-associated immune system dysfunction ultimately precludes the expansion of human presence beyond Earth's orbit. The immune system has undergone many evolutionary steps to cope with a new and changing environment, but ̀spacè has not been evolutionary experienced before. Through endocrine orchestration of cell functions, cell to cell communications and intracellular mechanisms the human body and his immune system have an enormous capacity to adapt and react to altered environmental conditions. Thus, the special sensitivity to altered gravity renders the immune system an ideal biological model system to understand if and how gravity on Earth is required for the normal function of cells and cellular networks. It is one of the most fundamental challenges to find out, if our organism and our cellular machinery are able to live and to adequately perform without the gravity field of Earth. The book is written for immunologists and researchers in human physiology under normal and stressfull conditions.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 28, 2016).
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Ullrich, Oliver, author.
Series
SpringerBriefs in space life sciences.
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Immune System in Space.
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Table of Contents
Immune system in evolution
The immune system and man
environment interaction from the clinical and from fundamental research perspectives
The effects of Space and Space like conditions on Immune functions from the clinical and from fundamental perspective
The upcoming venues: Individualized preventive or therapeutic measure,
In vitro and in vivo tools to measure the efficacy of such measures
Summary.
The immune system and man
environment interaction from the clinical and from fundamental research perspectives
The effects of Space and Space like conditions on Immune functions from the clinical and from fundamental perspective
The upcoming venues: Individualized preventive or therapeutic measure,
In vitro and in vivo tools to measure the efficacy of such measures
Summary.