“Nerve-Driven Immunity: Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System” summarizes, analyzes and sheds new light on an unrecognized, yet very important role of key neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the immune system.
Each chapter of the book deals with a different neurotransmitter/neuropeptide from the following list: Dopamine, Adrenaline, Noradrenaline, Acetylcholine, Glutamate, GABA, Somatostatin, Neuropeptide Y (NPY), Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), Calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP), Opioids and Cannabinoids.
For all these chemicals/neuropeptides, the next four subjects are talked about:The particular receptors for that natural chemical/neuropeptide expressed in various immune cellsThe direct effects caused through the natural chemical/neuropeptide in various immune cells (either resting or triggered), and also the specific immune features and functions it triggers/improves in other words suppresses in specific concentrationsThe manufacture of the natural chemical/neuropeptide in, and it is release by, various immune cellsThe participation from the natural chemical/neuropeptide in a variety of illnesses from the defense mechanisms (included in this autoimmune illnesses, immunodeficiency illnesses and hematological cancer)It includes many original figures, overview tables, and suggested types of occasions that are instrumental, enriching which stimulates for that readers.
English | ISBN: 370910887X | 2012 | PDF | 359 pages | 5 MB
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