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, van den Berg, Floris, Bauer, Holger, Salam, Alex P, Gössmann-Lang, Petra, Campolongo, Patrizia, Moser, Dominique, Quintens, Roel, Moreels, Marjan, Baatout, Sarah, Kohlberg, Eberhard, Schelling, Gustav, Choukèr, Alexander, Feuerecker, Matthias
• Other Authors: van den Berg, Flori
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: antarctica; catecholamine; endocannabinoid; glucocorticoid; high altitude; hypobaric hypoxia; Antarctic; Concordia Station; Neumayer; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1208374; 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 (...