Transient immune impairment after a simulated long-haul flight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 418-423

  Wilder Smith, Annelies ^a,c   Mustafa, Fatima B ^b   Peng, Chung Mien ^d   Earnest, Arul ^e   Koh, David ^b   Lin, Gen ^b   Hossain, Iqbal ^a   Macary, Paul A ^b  

^a Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Aeromedical Centre   (Singapore)

^e TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Air travel; Common cold; Immune markers; Respiratory infections; Stress markers

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ANTIGENS, CD; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84860436140     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3162.2012     Document Type: Article

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