Reply to Wostyn et al.: Investigating the spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome and the human brain in lockstep

Angelique Van Ombergen^{1

2}, Steven Jillings^{3

4}, Elena Tomilovskaya⁵, Floris L Wuyts³, Peter Zu Eulenburg⁶

Affiliations

¹ Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium; angelique.vanombergen@uantwerpen.be.
² Department of Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ GIGA-Consciousness, Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
⁵ State Science Center of the Russian Federation, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia.
⁶ German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.

Comment

Angelique Van Ombergen et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 6;116(32):15772-15773.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909828116. Epub 2019 Jul 30.

Angelique Van Ombergen^{1

2}, Steven Jillings^{3

4}, Elena Tomilovskaya⁵, Floris L Wuyts³, Peter Zu Eulenburg⁶

¹ Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium; angelique.vanombergen@uantwerpen.be.
² Department of Translational Neurosciences, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Lab for Equilibrium Investigations and Aerospace, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ GIGA-Consciousness, Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
⁵ State Science Center of the Russian Federation, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia.
⁶ German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Brain ventricular volume changes induced by long-duration spaceflight.
Van Ombergen A, Jillings S, Jeurissen B, Tomilovskaya E, Rumshiskaya A, Litvinova L, Nosikova I, Pechenkova E, Rukavishnikov I, Manko O, Danylichev S, Rühl RM, Kozlovskaya IB, Sunaert S, Parizel PM, Sinitsyn V, Laureys S, Sijbers J, Zu Eulenburg P, Wuyts FL. Van Ombergen A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 May 21;116(21):10531-10536. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820354116. Epub 2019 May 6. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31061119 Free PMC article.
The buffering capacity of the brain and optic nerve against spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome.
Wostyn P, Mader TH, Gibson CR, De Deyn PP. Wostyn P, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Aug 6;116(32):15770-15771. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1908865116. Epub 2019 Jul 30. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019. PMID: 31363044 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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