Short Title:
Palmer Pilot Study
Responsible HRP Element:
Human Health Countermeasures
Funding Status:
Active - Currently funded and in progress
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Procurement Mechanism(s):
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Aims:
Specific Aims:
- Investigate the effect of coastal Antarctica winterover on salivary stress hormones, salivary cytokine profiles, and basic peripheral leukocyte distribution.
- Investigate the effect of coastal Antarctica winterover on the reactivation and shedding of latent herpesviruses.
- Characterize other adverse clinical outcomes, as voluntarily shared by crewmembers via a health survey, such that immune changes, viral reactivation, and clinical manifestations may be correlated to infer information regarding clinical risk from persistent immune dysregulation.
Ground Analog Resources
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Ground-Based Flight Analogs
- ICE Field Analog, Long Duration (4 months or more) – isolated, confined and extreme; may not have spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., Antarctica]
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| Number of Subjects
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20
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Category:
Risk Characterization, Quantification
Subcategory:
Evidence or Risk Characterization
Description:
A final report with both sets of winterover subject data will be provided at the end of the study to identify an Antarctica analog for spaceflight-associated immune system dysregulation.
Internal Customers:
None
External Customers:
None