Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

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 relevant subjects are also presented, such as inflammation, asthma and allergy, autoimmune disease, immunodeficiency and the acute phase response. and bull; A comprehensive presentation of neuroimmune biology and bull; Introduces the subject matter to the uninformed reader and bull; Contains basic information, theoretical considerations and up-to-date clinical chapters and bull; The clinical chapters will be helpful to practising physicians.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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