Modulations of Neuroendocrine Stress Responses During Confinement in Antarctica and the Role of Hypobaric Hypoxia

• Published in: Frontiers in Physiology
• Main Authors: Strewe, Claudia, Thieme, Detlef, Dangoisse, Carole, Fiedel, Barbara, Berg, Floris van den, Bauer, Holger, Salam, Alex P., Gössmann-Lang, Petra, Campolongo, Patrizia, Moser, Dominique, Quintens, Roel, Moreels, Marjan, Baatout, Sarah, Kohlberg, Eberhard, Schelling, Gustav, Chouker, Alexander, Feuerecker, Matthias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018
• Subjects: Medizin; ddc:610; Antarctic; Concordia Station; Neumayer; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/64075/1/fphys-09-01647.pdf; https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/64075/; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-64075-6; https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01647

The Antarctic continent is an environment of extreme conditions. Only few research stations exist that are occupied throughout the year. The German station Neumayer III and the French-Italian Concordia station are such research platforms and human outposts. The seasonal shifts of complete daylight (...