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CELL REPORTS
Volume 33, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108435
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- NASA [NNX14AH51G, NNX14AB01G, 80NSSC19K0434, NNX17AB26G]
- Human Health Countermeasures Element of the NASA Human Research Program
- NIH [UH3DK114920]
- DOD [CDMRPPR181598]
- NASA [NNX17AB26G, 1002384, NNX14AH51G, 683145] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Telomeres, repetitive terminal features of chromosomes essential for maintaining genome integrity, shorten with cell division, lifestyle factors and stresses, and environmental exposures, and so they provide a robust biomarker of health, aging, and age-related diseases. We assessed telomere length dynamics (changes over time) in three unrelated astronauts before, during, and after 1-year or 6-month missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Similar to our results for National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) One-Year Mission twin astronaut (Garrett-Bakelman et al., 2019), significantly longer telomeres were observed during spaceflight for two 6-month mission astronauts. Furthermore, telomere length shortened rapidly after return to Earth for all three crewmembers and, overall, telomere length tended to be shorter after spaceflight than before spaceflight. Consistent with chronic exposure to the space radiation environment, signatures of persistent DNA damage responses were also detected, including mitochondrial and oxidative stress, inflammation, and telomeric and chromosomal aberrations, which together provide potential mechanistic insight into spaceflight-specific telomere elongation.
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