Neuro-Immuno-Gastroenterology

The immunology of the gastrointestinal system.- The enteric nervous system.- Microbial regulation of gastrointestinal immunity in health and disease.- Roles of substance P in gastrointestinal functions and neuroimmune interactions.- Immunomodulation by vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP).- Helicobacter pylori, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and multiple sclerosis.- Stress and the gastrointestinal system.- Nutrition, macrobiotics and the brain neuroinflammatory response.- Guillain-Barré syndrome and Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.- Gut microbiota: a possible role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.- Intestinal parasites and immunomodulation in neuroinflammatory disease.- Neurological complications of anti-TNF treatments and other neurological aspects of inflammatory bowel disease.- Intestinal bacterial antigens, toxin-induced pathogenesis and immune cross-reactivity in neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis.- Targeting immunomodulatory agentsto the gut-associated lymphoid tissue.- The neuroimmunology of gluten intolerance.- The neurology of autoimmune pernicious anaemia (subacute combined degeneration).- The impact of multiple sclerosis on gastrointestinal system function.- The neurology of Whipple's disease.