Eco-immunology Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Malagoli, Davide (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Ottaviani, Enzo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Evolutionary biology.; Systems biology.; Biological systems.; Biomedicine.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biological Networks, Systems Biology.

This book represents a cutting-edge contribution giving an all-around perspective of eco-immunology today. Beside questions of the utmost importance for the whole community of immunologists, e.g, the intrinsic limits of immunological experiments performed at the bench on a limited number of selected...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1 From immunology to eco-immunology
• 2 System biology models and conceptualizations applied to eco-immunology
• 3 Reproductive and immune system interactions in the context of life history and sexual selection theory
• 4 Host-Parasite Interactions
• 5 Immune-neuroendocrine integration and its evolution
• 6 Thymic maturation and programmed cell death
• 7 The new antigenic ecospace of the globalized world and its impact on the immune system: the battleground of trade off and antagonistic pleiotropy
• 8 Population Immunology: germs, aging and inflammation
• 9 Mouse models as paradigms of human diseases.-Index.