Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dietert, Rodney R. (Editor), Luebke, Robert W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2012.
• Series: Molecular and Integrative Toxicology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Molecular Medicine.

Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction, and Chronic Disease is among the first books to illustrate the linkage between environmental risk factors (e.g., chemicals, drugs, diet, lifestyles), environmentally-induced immune dysfunction and the full range of resulting chronic diseases and conditions. There...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Immunotoxicity
• The Environment-Immune Route to Chronic Disease
• Asthma and Respiratory Allergies
• Cutaneous Allergies
• Food Allergies
• Factors Involved in Onset of Type1 Diabetes
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Environment, Immune Dysfunction and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease and Inflammation: A  Hypothetical View
• Immune Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Atherosclerosis and Inflammatory Heart Disease
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Celiac Disease: Environmental Risks Factors and Consequences
• COPD and Other Inflammatory Diseases of the Lung:  Focus on AhR signaling
• Environment, the Immune System, and Depression: An Integrative Review and Discussion of the Infection-Defense Hypothesis
• Cancer – Childhood Acute Leukemia
• Environmental Toxicants and Susceptibility to Infection
• Reducing the Prevalence of Immune-Based Chronic Disease.