
Nerve-Driven Immunity: Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System
Author(s): Mia Levite
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: February 23, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 380 pages
- ISBN-10: 3709108896
- ISBN-13: 9783709108895
Book Description
Mia Levite: Dopamine in the immune system: Dopamine receptors in immune cells, potent effects, endogenous production and involvement in immune and neuropsychiatric diseases.- Marco Cosentino and Franca Marino: Nerve driven immunity – Noradrenaline and adrenalina.- Eran Nizri and Talma Brenner: Acetylcholine and Cholinergic modulation of immune responses.- Yonatan Ganor and Mia Levite: Glutamate in the immune system: glutamate receptors in immune cells, potent effects, endogenous production and involvement in disease.- Zhe Jin, Suresh Kumar Mendu, Amol Bhandage and Bryndis Birnir: GABA is an effective immunomodulatory molecule in the brain and in the periphery.- Jana Ninković and Sabita Roy: The Effects of Opioids on Immune Cells, Functions and Diseases.- Toomas Talme and Karl-Gösta Sundqvist: The effects of Somatostatin on immune cells, functions and diseases.- Mirjana Dimitrijević and Stanislava Stanojević: Neuropeptide Y – the story, the players, the outcomes.- Mario Delgadoand Doina Ganea: Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide: Immune mediator and potential therapeutic agent.- Bernhard Holzmann: Nerve-driven immunity – The effects of neurotransmitters on immune cells, functions and disease. CGRP.- Radu Tanasescu and Cris S. Constantinescu: The effects of Cannabinoids on immune cells, responses and diseases.
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