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Toxicological implications of extended space flights
The dominant reason for exposing humans to the risks of space flight is their ability to perform complex tasks and make complex decisions. To fulfill such a role, crews must be shielded against even incipient degradation of performance capacity. The space environment contains potential hazardsrangin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11537568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-5765(92)90203-U |
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author | Weiss, Bernard Utell, Mark Morrow, Paul |
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description | The dominant reason for exposing humans to the risks of space flight is their ability to perform complex tasks and make complex decisions. To fulfill such a role, crews must be shielded against even incipient degradation of performance capacity. The space environment contains potential hazardsranging from microgravity to infectious microorganisms to chemical toxicants. An extensive literature indicates that incipient disruptions of function may occur at low levels of exposure to toxic agents and degrade performance. Such questions need to be pursued before irreversible decisions are made about space vehicle design. |
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spelling | pubmed-71332422020-04-08 Toxicological implications of extended space flights Weiss, Bernard Utell, Mark Morrow, Paul Acta Astronaut Article The dominant reason for exposing humans to the risks of space flight is their ability to perform complex tasks and make complex decisions. To fulfill such a role, crews must be shielded against even incipient degradation of performance capacity. The space environment contains potential hazardsranging from microgravity to infectious microorganisms to chemical toxicants. An extensive literature indicates that incipient disruptions of function may occur at low levels of exposure to toxic agents and degrade performance. Such questions need to be pursued before irreversible decisions are made about space vehicle design. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1992-07 2003-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7133242/ /pubmed/11537568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-5765(92)90203-U Text en Copyright © 1992 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Weiss, Bernard Utell, Mark Morrow, Paul Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title | Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title_full | Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title_fullStr | Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title_full_unstemmed | Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title_short | Toxicological implications of extended space flights |
title_sort | toxicological implications of extended space flights |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7133242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11537568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-5765(92)90203-U |
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