Environmental Influences on the Immune System

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Esser, Charlotte (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology.

This book brings together articles on the overarching theme of how the environment shapes the immune system. The immune system is commonly assumed to respond to harmful pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. However, harmless bacteria, chemicals, stress, normal food and other factors can also trigg...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Principal players and structure of the immune system
• Immunosuppression by UV-irradiation
• “Eat your veggies” How food-derived AhR ligands are necessary for the development of a functioning gut immune system
• The “Hygiene Theory” – how the immune system learns its balance by exposure to the right bacteria
• Immunotoxicity of dioxins
• Toxic dust and the immune system
• Adrenalin, cortisol and Co: Stress and the immune system
• Immunity and depression: Does inflammation affect our mood?- Diabetes and low-level persistent inflammation caused by the environment
• Mechanisms of major immunosuppressive drugs
• The immune system in the young
• Immunity and age – exhaustion of repertoire by immune experience
• Major research models
• Epigenetic imprinting influences on the immune competence
• Contact allergy and life-style
• Chemicals breaking tolerance leading to allergies and autoimmunity
• The challenge of predicting immunotoxic potential of chemicals
• Environmental pollution and industrial accidents such as Bhopal– a human rights perspective. .