Beschreibung
This book explains how the influence of stress of either psychological or physical nature can activate and/or paralyse humans' innate or adaptive immunity. However, adequate immunity is crucial to maintain health on Earth and in space. During space flight, human physiology and health is specifically challenged by complex environmental stressors which might be most pronounced during lunar or interplanetary missions. Using an interdisciplinary approach and holistic view, this book edition identifies the impact of living conditions in space (stressors of the "Space-Exposome": confinement, gravitation, oxygen tension, radiation and other) on the adaptation of the immune system. This knowledge may help to prevent, diagnose and to countermeasure immune-related health alteration. Expanded by seven more chapters and all written and up-dated by experts from academia, space agencies and industry, this second edition aims to serve as a valuable resource for professionals, researchers and students in the field of medicine, biology and technology.Chapters "The Impact of Everyday Stressors on the Immune System and Health", "Stress and Radiation Responsiveness" and "Assessment of Radiosensitivity and Biomonitoring of Exposure to Space Radiation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Autorenporträt
Alexander Choukèr is Professor of Medicine and Academic Director at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany and guest lecturer at King´s College, London, UK. He is clinical specialist in anesthesiology at the University Hospital where heads the "Stress and Immunity" research. He completed his medical and immunological training at the LMU and at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda/USA, respectively. For more than two decades he has been actively involved in research on the International Space Station, in space analogue environments and been leading inter-disciplinary teams for translational and experimental research, including at the hospital. He is member of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) and has been advisor or chairman at different expert boards of the European Space Agency´s (ESA). He is the chair of the ESA Topical Team on Stress and Immunology.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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69121 Heidelberg
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
