This volume deals with the various interactions between the central nervous system and the immune system in inflammatory conditions. The emphasis is on the origin of pain and stress and their treatment. The book is divided into four parts: central nervous system and inflammation, stress and inflammation, sympathetic nervous system, and peripheral nervous system and inflammation.
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Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
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Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-0348-9416-6 (9783034894166)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-0348-8039-8
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The brain and the mind - can the immune system help?.- Influence of brain-derived cytokines on the immune response.- Physical stress/exercise and immune response.- Pain and immunosuppression.- The sympathetic-immune interface: role in immune regulation andpathology.- Functional role of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system ininflammatory pain.- Nerve injury and immune response.- Neuronal mechanisms of the recruitment of opioid peptide expressingimmune cells.- Peripheral analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of opioids -neuro-immune crosstalk.- The skin as a model for the immunodulatory effects ofcorticotropin-releasing hormone.- Adenosine - a peripheral neuronal modulator of pain and inflammation.
