This article is a correction to:
Immunological Changes During Space Travel: A Ground-Based Evaluation of the Impact of Neutron Dose Rate on Plasma Cytokine Levels in Human Whole Blood Cultures
Randall Fisher1*
Bjorn Baselet2
Randy Vermeesen2
Marjan Moreels2Sarah Baatout2Farzana Rahiman3
Xanthene Miles1
Shankari Nair1Peter du Plessis1Monique Engelbrecht1,4
Roya J. Ndimba1
Julie Bolcaen1Jaime Nieto-Camero1Evan de Kock1
Charlot Vandevoorde1- 1Radiation Biophysics Division, iThemba LABS (Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences), Nuclear Medicine Department, National Research Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2Radiobiology Unit, Institute for Environment, Health and Safety, Belgian Nuclear Research Center, SCK CEN (Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire), Mol, Belgium
- 3BioSkin Lab, Department of Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- 4Department of Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
by Fisher, R., Baselet, B., Vermeesen, R., Moreels, M., Baatout, S., Rahiman, F., et al. (2020). Front. Phys. 8:568124. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.568124
In the original article, we neglected to include the EU Horizon 2020 - EURopeAn MEDical application and Radiation prOteCtion Concept: strategic research agenda aNd ROadmap interLinking to heaLth and digitization aspects (EURAMED Rocc-n-roll) research funding, with grant agreement number 899995 of Prof. Sarah Baatout.
The updated Funding statement can be found below.
Funding
Funding for the collaborative networking between South Africa and Belgium for this study was made available by the joint SA-NRF and Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) funding program under grant reference number BELS180425324336. Research consumables and beam time costs were funded by NRF iThemba LABS institutional grant. EU Horizon 2020 - EURopeAn MEDical application and Radiation prOteCtion Concept: strategic research agenda aNd ROadmap interLinking to heaLth and digitization aspects (EURAMED Rocc-n-roll) research funding, with grant agreement number 899995 of SB.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
Keywords: radiation in space, immune system, space radiobiology, terrestrial analog, cytokine release assay in vitro, dose rate effect, astronaut health, neutron radiation
Citation: Fisher R, Baselet B, Vermeesen R, Moreels M, Baatout S, Rahiman F, Miles X, Nair S, du Plessis P, Engelbrecht M, Ndimba RJ, Bolcaen J, Nieto-Camero J, de Kock E and Vandevoorde C (2021) Corrigendum: Immunological Changes During Space Travel: A Ground-Based Evaluation of the Impact of Neutron Dose Rate on Plasma Cytokine Levels in Human Whole Blood Cultures. Front. Phys. 9:677808. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.677808
Received: 08 March 2021; Accepted: 09 March 2021;
Published: 15 April 2021.
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*Correspondence: Randall Fisher, rfisher@tlabs.ac.za