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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Correspondence: kprisk@ucsd.edu
Acknowledgements:
Many of the studies were funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute under various contracts and grants. G Kim Prisk is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health under R01 HL119263.
Competing interests:
No relevant disclosures.
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