TY - JOUR
AU1 - Guéguinou, Nathan
AU2 - Huin-Schohn, Cécile
AU3 - Bascove, Matthieu
AU4 - Bueb, Jean-Luc
AU5 - Tschirhart, Eric
AU6 - Legrand-Frossi, Christine
AU7 - Frippiat, Jean-Pol
AB - Review describes hazards present as humans explore space and focuses on the effects of spaceflight on immunity.This year, we celebrate the 40th birthday of the first landing of humans on the moon. By 2020, astronauts should return to the lunar surface and establish an outpost there that will provide a technical basis for future manned missions to Mars. This paper summarizes major constraints associated with a trip to Mars, presents immunological hazards associated with this type of mission, and shows that our current understanding of the immunosuppressive effects of spaceflight is limited. Weakening of the immune system associated with spaceflight is therefore an area that should be considered more thoroughly before we undertake prolonged space voyages.
TI - Could spaceflight-associated immune system weakening preclude the expansion of human presence beyond Earth’s orbit?
JF - Journal of Leukocyte Biology
DO - 10.1189/jlb.0309167
DA - 2009-08-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/could-spaceflight-associated-immune-system-weakening-preclude-the-obJmeBeA7W
SP - 1027
EP - 1038
VL - 86
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -