Oxidative Stress and Damage in the Space Environment: Physiological Ground and Flight Parallels
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2018) | Viewed by 61307
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Interests: oxidative stress; antioxidants; botanicals; radiation toxicity; lung inflammation; lung fibrosis; space radiation; radiotherapy
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2. Goodwin BioScience Research Institute, Houston, TX 77258, USA
Interests: OSaD; inflammation; regenerative medicine; neural stem cell networks; 3D tissue toxicity; high-energy and galactic cosmic radiation impacts
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Dear Colleagues,
Technological advances now allow the planning of deep space exploration missions with the aim to discover new habitats for humankind. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has spearheaded this effort and the research into the identification of risks to crew members associated with such lengthy missions. Exciting work from a multitude of investigators across the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan have identified oxidative damage as a key risk factor to major organs and systems physiologies that could pose a threat to the health of the astronauts and the success of the mission. Through “Omics technologies” and other advanced analyses we now have defined methods to begin comparison of human physiological responses in space flight to ground based One Earth Normal (OEN) physiologies. This Special Issue of IJMS is dedicated to providing a comprehensive overview of the identified risks in space flight and habitation and will focus on ground based vs. flight comparisons of how oxidative stress when exposed to space-relevant conditions such as cosmic/galactic radiation, solar particle events, hypogravity (G-variations and partial gravity) and hypoxia/hyperoxia or any aggregate combination of stressors effects the human physiology. Much can be learned from examination and analyses of the parallel human physiology response and how it adapts to the hostile environment of space.
Prof. Dr. Melpo Christofidou-SolomidouDr. Thomas J. Goodwin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Hypoxia/hyperoxia
- Omics analyses
- Cosmic/galactic radiation
- Solar particles
- Space travel
- Mars habitation
- Environmental stressors
- Hypogravity/gravity variations
- Oxidative stress
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