Stress Challenges and Immunity in Space

1. Space Travel: A Personal View from Above
Thomas Reiter

2. Space Travel: An Integrative View from the Scientists of the Topical Team “Stress and Immunity”
Sarah Baatout, Alexander Choukèr, Ines Kaufmann, Nicola Montano, Siegfried Praun, Dominique Quervain, Benno Roozendaal, Gustav Schelling, Manfred Thiel

3. What Is Stress?
Bruce S. McEwen, Ilia N. Karatsoreos

4. The Impact of Everyday Stressors on the Immune System and Health
Lisa M. Christian, Ronald Glaser

5. Neurobiological Mechanisms of Stress and Glucocorticoid Effects on Learning and Memory: Implications for Stress Disorders on Earth and in Space
Raquel V. Fornari, Amanda Aerni, Benno Roozendaal, Dominique J.-F. Quervain

6. The Autonomic Nervous System
Nicola Montano, Eleonora Tobaldini, Alberto Porta

7. Circadian Rhythm and Stress
Mathias Steinach, Hanns-Christian Gunga

8. Endocannabinoids, “New-Old” Mediators of Stress Homeostasis
Daniela Hauer, Roland Toth, Gustav Schelling

9. Immune System in Space: General Introduction and Observations on Stress-Sensitive Regulations
Brian Crucian, Alexander Choukèr

10. Innate Immunity Under Conditions of Space Flight
Matthias Feuerecker, Alex P. Salam, Ines Kaufmann, André Martignoni, Alexander Choukèr

11. NK Cells Assessments: A Thirty-Year-Old History of Immune Stress Interaction in Space
Boris Morukov, Marina Rykova, Eugenia Antropova

12. Adaptive Immunity and Spaceflight
Brian Crucian, Clarence Sams

13. Stress, Hypoxia, and Immune Responses
Manfred Thiel, Michail Sitkovsky, Alexander Choukèr

14. Gravitational Force: Triggered Stress in Cells of the Immune System
Oliver Ullrich, Cora S. Thiel

15. Microbial Stress: Spaceflight-induced Alterations in Microbial Virulence and Infectious Disease Risks for the Crew
C. Mark Ott, Aurélie Crabbé, James W. Wilson, Jennifer Barrila, Sarah L. Castro, Cheryl A. Nickerson

16. Stress, Spaceflight, and Latent Herpes Virus Reactivation
Raymond P. Stowe, Duane L. Pierson, Satish K. Mehta

17. Stress and Radiation Responsiveness
Marjan Moreels, Louis Saint-Georges, Filip Vanhavere, Sarah Baatout

18. Considerations for Development and Application of Health Monitoring Tools in Space
Ines Kaufmann, Alexander Choukèr

19. Psychological Monitoring
Bernd Johannes, Berna Baarsen

20. Monitoring of Autonomic Activity by Cardiovascular Variability: How to Measure?
André E. Aubert, Bart Verheyden

21. Breath Gas Analysis
Michael Dolch, Siegfried Praun, Johannes Villiger, Alexander Choukèr, Gustav Schelling

22. Monitoring the Microbial Burden in Manned Space Stations
Rob Houdt, Natalie Leys

23. Monitoring of Body Core Temperature in Humans
Andreas Werner, Hanns-Christian Gunga

24. Flow Cytometry Methods to Monitor Immune Dysregulation Associated with Spaceflight
Brian Crucian, Clarence Sams

25. Assessment of Radiosensitivity and Monitoring of Radiation-Induced Cellular Damage
Marjan Moreels, Roel Quintens, Sarah Baatout

26. Considerations for Preventive and Therapeutic Strategies
Jean-Pol Frippiat, Martina Heer, Alexander Choukèr

27. Psychological Countermeasures
Gro Mjeldheim Sandal, Gloria R. Leon

28. Physical Countermeasures to Stress
Vera Abeln, Stefan Schneider

29. Nutritional Countermeasures for Spaceflight-Related Stress
Martina Heer, Natalie Baecker, Scott M. Smith, Sara R. Swart

30. Pharmacological Countermeasures to Spaceflight-Induced Alterations of the Immune System
Nathan Guéguinou, Matthieu Bascove, Jean-Pol Frippiat

31. Platforms for Stress and Immune Research in Preparation of Long-Duration Space Exploration Missions
Oliver Angerer

32. Exploration Class Missions on Earth: Lessons Learnt from Life in Extreme Antarctic Isolation and Confinement
Alex P. Salam

33. Moon, Mars and Beyond
Marc Heppener

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Human Physiology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Immunology, Neurosciences