Immune system, interactions

Holtkamp, GM, Kijlstra, A, Peek, R, and de Vos, AF, 2001. Retinal pigment epithelium-immune system interactions Cytokine production and cytokine-induced changes. Prog Retin Eye Res 20, 29-48. 

Rollins-Smith, L.A. Neuroendocrine-immune system interactions in amphibians. Implications for understanding global amphibian declines. Immunologic Res., 2312 3, 273, 2001. 

Rodent and human immunology has served to guide our understanding of the mammalian immune system, where the highly conserved innate immune system, and the more complex acquired or adaptive immune system, interact to protect the host from infection. 

Ever since the 1970s more evidence has been found in psychoneuroimmunology to confirm the opinion that the highly complex immune system interacts with an equally complex nervous system in a bidirectional manner (Fleshner and Laudenslager 2004). Today, it is a proven fact that stress is associated with altered immune function (Cooper 1996, Maier et al. 1998). 

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The view of neuroimmunology has evolved from the dogma that regarded the CNS as an immune privileged site to a view of significant CNS-immune system interactions. Cytokines and grow th factors are important to the brain s immune... 

CNS-immune system interactions are regulated by cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors. Immune cells, after... 

As discussed above, several other peptides may be derived from POMC in a cell-specific manner, dependent upon processing within each cell type. The role of ACTH in nervous system-immune system interactions is discussed elsewhere in this chapter. At present a neuroimmune function for the other POMC peptides has not been demonstrated. 

Carlson SL (2003) Nervous system immune system interactions. In Neuroscience in Medicine, 2nd ed. (Conn PM, ed), pp 647-661. Totowa, NJ Humana Press. 

Black PH. 1994. Central nervous system-immune systems interactions psychoneuroendocrinology of stress and its immune consequences. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 38(1) 1-6... 

Dunn AJ. Psychonetrroimmunology for the psychoneirroendociinologist. A review of animal studies of nervous system-immune system interactions. Psychoneuroendocrinology 1989 14 251-274. 

Adhesion molecules. Molecules, belonging mainly to the immunoglobulin or integrin superfamily of molecules (e.g. LFA-1, ICAM-1), expressed on the membrane of various cells of the immune system. Interactions with each other as receptors and corresponding ligands facilitate cooperation (cross-talk) of cells, signal transduction, and information transfer between cells. 

Understanding of nanoparticle toxicity pharmacokinetics, and immune system interactions... 

Also in view of the results discussed earlier, it seems that inhibitors like hydroquinones, dexamethasone may increase the amount of catabolic enzymes associated with stress conditions as well as the in vivo release of phenyl radicals, facihtating depigmentation (15, 220). Stress not only releases inhibitors of tyrosinase, e.g. catecholamines, but also induces TAT in vivo (1) causing deamination of tyrosine and yielding p-hydroxy-phenylpyruvic acid, which is an inhibitor of tyrosinase. Stress has also a great effect on the immune system (127) and on brain-immune system interaction as well (179). 

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