| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Historical perspectives on psychoneuroimmunology / Robert Ader -- Psychoneuroimmunology, stress and infection / Adrian J. Dunn -- Neuroendocrine peptide hormones and receptors in the immune response and infectious diseases / Douglas A. Weigent, J. Edwin Blalock -- The pituitary gland, psychoneuroimmunology and infection / Istvan Berczi, Andor Szentivanyi -- Neuroendocrine regulation of hematopoiesis / Georges J.M. Maestroni -- Psychoneuroimmunology, stress and disease / Michael Schlesinger, Yair Yodfat -- Conditioned immunity to L. Major in young and aged mice / R.M. Gorczynski --Neuroimmunology of host-microbial interactions / David H. Brown, Bruce S. Zwilling -- Steroids and infection / Yoshimasa Yamamoto, Herman Friedman -- Psychological stress and upper respiratory illness / Dana H. Bovbjerg, Arthur A. Stone -- Thymic hormones, viral infections and psychoneuroimmunology / N. Trainin [and others] -- Herpes virus infections and psychoneuroimmunology / Susan Kennedy -- Cervical neoplasia, human papilloma virus and psychoneuroimmunology / Michael H. Antoni, Karl Goodkin -- Psychoimmunology and psychobiology of parasitic infestation / Béla Bohus, Jaap M. Koolhaas |
| Summary |
Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones. The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the immune system in general and also the relationship between neurological events which influence susceptibility and/or resistance to infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, as well as parasites. Prominent researchers describe the involvement of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis on immunity as a function of the nervous system. The text discusses hormones such as prolactin and growth hormone and steroid induced susceptibility to infection and neuropeptides, including vasoactive intestinal peptide, and substance P. The effects of catacholamines on immunity and susceptibility to infection are also covered. This reference also details the involvement of immune cells in the synthesis of neuropeptides, including hormones and endorphins, their effect on the brain as well as the effects of interleukins and tumor necrosis factor on the central nervous system. The book concludes with an interesting look at the relationship between aging, psychoneuroimmunology, and infection. Although there is much new knowledge concerning the nature and mechanism of immune responses, including the mediators involved, Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection also presents important discussions and reviews that are long overdue and provide a major contribution to the area of biomedical knowledge in general and psychoneuroimmunology in particular |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Herman Friedman, Ph. D., is Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL. He received an A.B. in biology and A.M. in bacteriology from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He then received his Ph. D. degree in microbiology and immunology from Hahnemann University College of Medicine in 1957, in Philadelphia, PA. He served as Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia for nearly 20 years and was Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple University School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine at the same time. He relocated to Tampa in 1978, when he was appointed to the faculty of the University of South Florida. Dr. Friedman is a member of many U.S. and international biomedical societies, including the American Association of Immunologists, the American Society for Microbiology, the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists, the Clinical Immunology Society, etc. He is a fellow of several biomedical societies, including the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He serves on many advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health, including the Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section for 8 years and a study section for immunology at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has also been a charter member of the AIDS Basic Science Study Section at NIH for 4 years as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for Microbiology and Virology of the American Cancer Society. He received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Hahnemann University as well as Distinguished Scientist Award from the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He also was recipient of the Becton Dickinson Award in Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology, which has a membership of over 45,000 microbiologists. He was instrumental in founding the Diagnostic Clinical Immunology Division of the ASM and received a Distinguished Service Award from that division. He was head of the clinical immunology program for the American Academy of Microbiology for nearly a dozen years. He was also one of the organizers of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists. He has served as President of the Reticuloendothelial Society, now the Leukocyte Biology Society, and was President of both the Eastern Pensylvania and the Florida branches of the American Society for Microbiology. He was a Foundation for Microbiology Visiting Lecturer several times and has been a guest lecturer at many universities in the United States and abroad, including serving as a Visiting Professor at various universities in several countries, such as Israel, Japan, China, Peru, and Germany. He has been co-editor of several editions of the Manual of Clinical Immunology, published by the ASM. He has also been on the editorial board or section editor for many national and international journals, and has been the co-editor of the Clinical Immunology Newsletters for 10 years. He has published over 500 peer reviewed journal articles and equal numbers of abstracts presented at national and international scientific meetings. He has served as chair of many scientific sessions at such meetings over the past 30 years. He has also organized and served as chairman of over a dozen international scientific symposia. He is editor or co-editor of over 55 books, including many proceedings of national and international symposia he organized and chaired. His many research interests are in the area of immune responses to microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi and viruses, and the effects of microorganisms, especially retroviruses, on the immune response system. He has also been involved in studying the effects of environmental agents, including drugs of abuse, bacterial products, and natural as well as synthetic immunomodulators on immune response mechanisms. His research is supported by many grants from national agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health. Thomas W. Klein, Ph. D., is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He received his Ph. D. degree in microbiology from Creighton University School of Medicine, where he also received his B.S. degree, and has served as a faculty member at the University of South Florida College of Medicine since 1972. He became Professor about 10 years ago. He has served as reviewer of many scientific research papers for national and international journals as well as reviewer for research grant applications to national and federal granting agencies. He has been the co-author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles as well as symposium proceedings and book articles and has also served as co-editor for over a dozen books. He has trained many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Klein's research interests are concerned with the effects of bacteria on the immune response and the nature and mechanism of immunity to bacterial antigens. In particular, he has been investigating the nature and mechanism of immunity to the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila, which infects primarily macrophages in immunocompromised individuals. He has also been investigating the mechanisms by which drugs of abuse, especially marijuana and cocaine, affect the immune response mechanism, including effects on specific cellular and humoral immune mechanisms as well as the effects of such drugs on biochemical events in the immune response system. In particular, he has been studying the role of psychoneuroimmunological events on susceptibility and resistance to infectious agents, including bacteria and viruses. Andrea L. Friedman, Ph. D., is in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Oncology at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. She received her Ph. D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Miami with specialization in Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology. She received her BA. degree from Emory University. She has been active in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology and neuropsychology and has worked with several medical and neurological populations, including HIV spectrum, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease patients. Her research interests include psychological interventions for chronic illness, stress and coping, and, more recently, psychooncology |
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Infection -- Immunological aspects
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Psychoneuroimmunology.
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Stress (Physiology) -- Immunological aspects
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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Stress, Psychological -- immunology
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Communicable Diseases -- immunology
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MEDICAL -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Immunology.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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Infection -- Immunological aspects
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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Système nerveux central -- Physiologie.
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Système immunitaire -- Physiologie.
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Stress psychologique -- complications.
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Stress psychologique -- physiopathologie.
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Maladies transmissibles -- complications.
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Maladies transmissibles -- physiopathologie.
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Psychoneuroimmunologie
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Stress
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Infektion
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Psycho-immunologie.
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Infections -- Aspect immunologique.
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Psychoneuroimmunologie.
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Stress -- Aspect physiologique.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Friedman, Herman, 1931-2007.
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Klein, Thomas W.
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Friedman, Andrea L.
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| ISBN |
9780367812522 |
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0367812525 |
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9781000722550 |
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1000722554 |
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9781000718645 |
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1000718646 |
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9781000714739 |
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100071473X |
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