Table 1 Effects of spaceflight exposome/microgravity in lipid signaling of immune cells and cell lines

From: Spaceflight exposome/microgravity effects on the psychoimmunoneuroendocrine system

References

Experimental set up

Sample

Target

Effect

Maccarrone et al. 122

RPM

K562 cells

COX-2

Enhanced activity

Maccarrone et al. 123

Parabolic flight

Purified enzyme

15-LOX-1

Enhanced activity

Maccarrone et al. 124

RPM

Lymphocytes, U937 cells

5-LOX

Enhanced activity

Choukèr et al. 125;

Strewe et al. 126

Parabolic flight

Human blood

AEA

Enhanced production

Gasperi et al. 127

RCCS

Jurkat T cells

5-LOX

Enhanced activity

Battista et al. 128

ISS

PBMCs

5-LOX

Enhanced activity

AEA

Enhanced production

NAPE-PLD

Up-regulation (both mRNA and protein)

FAAH

Down-regulation (both mRNA and protein)

Buchheim et al. 54

ISS

Human Blood

AEA

Enhanced production

Kim et al. 25

Leuti et al. 46

RCCS

Primary Human Monocytes

RvD1

Reduced biosynthesis

  1. AEA N-arachidonoylethanolamine, COX-2 cyclooxygenase-2, FAAH fatty acid amide hydrolase, LOX lipoxygenase, NAPE-PLD N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines-specific phospholipase D, RPM random positioning machine, ISS International Space Station, RvD1 resolving D1, RCCS rotary cell-culture system bioreactor for simulated microgravity.