Neuroimmunomodulation

Preface International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation Award Lecture:

1. Growth hormone modulates migration of developing T cells: Mireille Dardenne, Salete Smaniotto, Valeria de Mello-Coelho, Dea Maria Serra Villa-Verde, and Wilson Savino

Part I: Molecular Basis of Connecting Pathways in Neuroimmunomodulation:

2. Intracellular molecular signaling provides specificity to Glucocorticoids anti-inflammatory actions: Ana C. Liberman, Jimena Druker, Fernando Aprile Garcia, Florian Holsboer, Eduardo Arzt

3. Organizing the thymus gland: The role of Eph and ephrins: Juan Jose Munoz, Javier Garcia-Ceca, David Alfaro, Marco Augusto Stimamiglio, Teresa Cejalvo, Eva Jimenez, and Agustin Gregorio Zapata

4. Neuropilins, semaphorins and their role in thymocyte development:

Daniella Areas Mendes-da-Cruz, Yves Lepelletier, Anne C. Brignier, Salete Smaniotto, Amedee Renand, Pierre Milpied, Mireille Dardenne, Olivier Hermine, and Wilson Savino

5. Leptin action in the thymus: Licio A. Velloso, Wilson Savino, and Eli Mansour

6. Nitric Oxide at the cross-road of immunoneuroendocrine interactions: Valeria Rettori, Javier Fernandez-Solari, Claudia Mohn, Maria A Zorrilla Zubilete, Carolina de la Cal, Juan Pablo Prestifilippo, Andrea De Laurentiis

Part II: Cytokines/Chemokines Regulating Nervous/Endocrine Tissues:

7. Cytokine control of adult neural stem cells: chronic versus acute exposure: Sylvian Bauer

8. Neuronal cell survival: The role of interleukins: Elizabeth Giestal de Araujo, Gustavo Mataruna da Silva, Aline Araujo dos Santos

9. Interleukin-4 as a Neuromodulatory Cytokine: Roles and Signaling in the Nervous System: Alfred Sholl-Franco, Ana Gabriela Ledo Santos da Silva, Juliana Adao-Novaes.

10. Cytokine-induced suppression of medial preoptic neurons: its mechanisms and neuroimmunomodulatory effects: Toshihiko Katafuchi, Shumin Duan, Sachiko Take and Megumu Yoshimura

11. IL-1 and insulin elicit different neuro-endocrine responses to hypoglycemia: Kazuki Ota, Johannes Wildmann, Taeko Ota, Hugo O. Besedovsky, and Adriana del Rey

12. Intrapituitary Expresion and Regulation of the gp130 Cytokine Interleukin-6 and Its Implication in Pituitary Physiology and Pathophysiology: Ulrich Renner, Eliane Correa De Santana, Juan Gerez, Bianca Froehlich, Mariana Haedo, Marcelo Paez Pereda, Chiara Onofri, Guenter K. Stalla, and Eduardo Arzt

13. The Thymus-Neuroendocrine Axis: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Therapeutic Potential of the Thymic Peptide Thymulin: Paula C. Reggiani, Gustavo R. Morel, Gloria M. Console, Claudio G. Barbeito, Silvia S. Rodriguez, Oscar A. Brown, Maria Jose Bellini, Jean-Marie Pleau, Mireille Dardenne, Rodolfo G. Goya

Part III: Behavioral Effects on Neuroimmunomodulation:

14. Behavior: A Relevant Tool for Brain-Immune Interaction Studies: Frederico Azevedo Costa-Pinto, Daniel Wagner Hamada Cohn, Vanessa Moura Sa-Rocha, Luiz Carlos Sa-Rocha, Joao Palermo-Neto

15. Immunology, signal transduction and behavior in HPA axis-related genetic mouse models: Susana Silberstein, Annette M. Vogl, Juan Jose Bonfiglio, Wolfgang Wurst, Florian Holsboer, Eduardo Arzt, Jan M. Deussing, and Damian Refojo

16. Behavior and stress reactivity in mouse strains with mitochondrial DNA variations: Ulrike Gimsa, Ellen Kanitz, Winfried Otten, Saleh M. Ibrahim

Part IV: Stress, Inflammation, and Disease:

17. The role of stress factors during aging of the immune system: Moises E. Bauer, Cristina M. Moriguchi Jeckel, and Clarice Luz

18. Modulation of the Immune System by Ouabain: Sandra Rodrigues-Mascarenhas, Andreia Da Silva De Oliveira, Nivea Dias Amoedo, Ottilia R. Affonso-Mitidieri, Franklin D. Rumjanek, Vivian M. Rumjanek

19. Nutrition, Inflammation and Cognitive Function: Julia Waernberg, Javier Romeo, Sonia Gomez-Martinez, Ligia-Esperanza Diaz, Ascension Marcos

20. Early maternal deprivation in rats: A proposed animal model for the study of developmental neuro-immuno-endocrine interactions: M. De la Fuente, R. LLorente, I. Baeza, N.M.De Castro, L. Arranz, J. Cruces, M.P. Viveros

21. Leptin and the immune response: an active player or an innocent bystander?: Anna Carla Goldberg, Freddy Goldberg-Eliaschewitz, Mari Cleide Sogayar, Julieta Genre, and Luiz Vicente Rizzo

22. The Immune-Pineal Axis: Stress as a modulator of pineal gland function: Renato Couto-Moraes, Joao Palermo-Neto, Regina Pekelmann Markus

23. Neuronal Plasticity and Antidepressants in the Diabetic Brain: Juan Beauquis, Paulina Roig, Alejandro F. De Nicola, and Flavia Saravia

24. Neuroimmune interactions in a model of multiple sclerosis: C. Jane Welsh, Andrew J. Steelman, Wentao Mi, Colin R. Young, Ralph Storts, Thomas H. Welsh, Jr., and Mary W. Meagher

25. Neuroimmune Regulation in Immunocompetence, Acute Illness, and Healing: Istvan Berczi, Andres Quintanar-Stephano, and Kalman Kovacs

26. The Role of Neuroimmunomodulation in Alzheimer's Disease: Ricardo B. Maccioni, Leonel E. Rojo, Jorge A. Fernandez, and Rodrigo O. Kuljis

27. The adrenal steroid response during tuberculosis and its effects on the mycobacterial-driven IFN- production of patients and their household contacts: Veronica Bozza, Luciano D?Attilio, Griselda Didoli, Natalia Santucci, Luis Nannini, Cristina Bogue, Adriana Del Rey, Hugo Besedovsky, Maria Luisa Bay and Oscar Bottasso

28. The chemokine CCL5 is essential for leukocyte recruitment in a model of severe herpes simplex encephalitis: Marcia Carvalho Vilela, Daniel Santos Mansur, Norinne Lacerda-Queiroz, David Henrique Rodrigues, Graciela Kunrath Lima, Rosa Maria Esteves Arantes, Erna Geessien Kroon, Marco Antonio da Silva Campos, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Antonio Lucio Teixeira.

29. Neuro-endocrine-immunology of experimental Chagas' Disease: Eduardo Roggero, Ana R. Perez, Oscar A. Bottasso, Hugo O. Besedovsky, and Adriana del Rey

Index of Contributors