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Permafrost Immunity
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2022 (English)In: Bioinformation, ISSN 0973-8894, E-ISSN 0973-2063, Vol. 18, no 9, p. 734-738Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Thawing permafrost is a serious and worrisome threat to the environment, because it releases trapped heavy metals and greenhousegasses. Thawing permafrost is also a health threat because, in addition to releasing these noxious gasses, thawing permafrost may freenovel and undiscovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites among a plethora of dormant pathogens. Our immunesystem is ill-prepared to counter these challenges, and will require significant adaptation, or allostasis, which can be subsumed under thegeneric term of permafrost immunity. Since most of the most gravely threatening pathogens released by thawing permafrost are likely topenetrate the organism through the oral cavity, permafrost immunity may first be identified in the oral mucosa. 

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2022. Vol. 18, no 9, p. 734-738
Keywords [en]
Climate change, Global warming, Permafrost, Immune allostasis, Cellular immunity, Humoral immunity, Exhausted T cells, Cytokine Storm, Virus-Induced Autoimmunity, Oral health
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Immunology Environmental Sciences Climate Research Ecology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:polar:diva-8933DOI: 10.6026/97320630018734OAI: oai:DiVA.org:polar-8933DiVA, id: diva2:1716268
Available from: 2022-12-05 Created: 2022-12-05 Last updated: 2022-12-05Bibliographically approved

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