The immune-neuroendocrine circuitry : history and progress /
The book summarises the current understanding of the Nervous -, Endocrine and Immune systems with emphasis on shared mediators and receptors and functional interaction. In addition to the fundamental physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms, which are presented in detail, some clinically rele...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2003.
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| Series: | Neuroimmune biology ;
v. 3. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Part I: The nervous system, receptors, ligands and signal transduction
- Chapter I. Introduction
- Introduction
- History
- The discovery of immune-neuroendocrine circuitry
- A generation of Progress
- Chapter II. The Nervous System
- A historical perspective
- Altered effector responses
- Some evolutionary morphoregulatory and functional aspects of the immune-neuroendocrine circuitry
- Virus associated immune and pharmacologic mechanisms in disorders of respiratory and cutaneous atopy
- Chapter III. Receptors, ligands and signaling
- Adhesion molecules
- Immunoglobulins
- Growth and lactogenic hormones, insulin-like growth factor and insulin
- The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and opioid peptides
- The hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis
- Nerve growth factror, leptin and neuropeptides
- Cytokines and chemokines
- Steroid hormones
- Regulatory enzymes
- Part II: Neuroimmune Function and the Neuroimmune Regulatory Network
- Chapter IV. Neuroimmune function
- A. Physiology
- B. Pathophysiology
- Chapter V. Immune-Neuroendocrine circuitry
- The Immune-Neuroendocrine Circuitry
- Keyword index
- Last Page.