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OverviewThis book explains how stress - either psychological or physical - can activate and/or paralyse human innate or adaptive immunity. Adequate immunity is crucial for maintaining health, both on Earth and in space. During space flight, human physiology is specifically challenged by complex environmental stressors, which are most pronounced during lunar or interplanetary missions. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book identifies the impact of these stressors - the space exposome - on immunity as a result of (dys-)functions of specific cells, organs and organ networks. These conditions (e.g. gravitation changes, radiation, isolation/confinement) affect immunity, but at the same time provide insights that may help to prevent, diagnose and address immune-related health alterations. Written by experts from academia, space agencies and industry, the book is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers and students in the field of medicine, biology and technology. The 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 adiation are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander ChoukerPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 2nd ed. 2020 Weight: 1.704kg ISBN: 9783030169954ISBN 10: 3030169952 Pages: 771 Publication Date: 06 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlexander Chouker is Professor of Medicine and Academic Director at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany and guest lecturer at Kings 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 Agencys (ESA). He is the chair of the ESA Topical Team on Stress and Immunology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |