- 400 pages
- English
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About this book
Stress: Immunology and Inflammation, Volume Five in the Handbook of Stress series, covers the influence physiologic stress has on immunity, immunology and inflammation. It provides a quick orientation to the subject for research, in clinic use, and in everyday life. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and with relevance to human conditions, the concepts and data in this volume offer readers cutting-edge information. It will be of prime interest to neuroscientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, and students in Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Immunology, Endocrinology, Psychology, Psychiatry and some aspects of the Social Sciences.
The effect of stress on our emotional and physical health can be devastating. There have been significant advances in our understanding of the influence stress has on inflammation in the human body and also our immunity to various afflictions.
- Articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter fully vetted for reliable expert knowledge
- Richly illustrated with explanatory figures and tables
- Each chapter includes a boxed "Key points" call out section
- The volume is fully indexed
- All chapters are electronically available via ScienceDirect
- Affordably priced, self-contained volume for readers specifically interested in the interaction between stress inflammation and the immune response, obviating the need to purchase the whole Handbook series
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Table of contents
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Toward identifying individual stress susceptibility
- Chapter 2 Plant immune system: Mechanisms and resilience
- Chapter 3 Effects of stress on immune cell distribution
- Chapter 4 Stress-induced enhancement of immune function
- Chapter 5 Immune suppression
- Chapter 6 SARS-CoV-2 immune suppression
- Chapter 7 Interleukin-1 beta in psychosocial stress
- Chapter 8 Inflammation and traumatic stress
- Chapter 9 Stress in psoriasis
- Chapter 10 Natural killer (NK) cells
- Chapter 11 Psychoneuroimmunology
- Chapter 12 Stress, aging, and inflammation
- Chapter 13 The chaperone system in autoimmunity, inflammation, and virus-induced diseases: Role of chaperonins
- Chapter 14 Steroid hormone receptors and regulation of ACE2 and COVID-19 disease outcomes
- Chapter 15 Immune, inflammatory, and neural systems in neuropsychiatric disease
- Chapter 16 Stress responses modulate bacterial competitive fitness in polymicrobial communities
- Chapter 17 Mitigating viral invasion: mTORC2’s role in neuroprotection and immunity
- Chapter 18 Microglia regulate cognition and stress-related cognitive disorders
- Chapter 19 Prenatal-induced psychopathologies: All roads lead to microglia
- Chapter 20 The environmental mismatch model of bipolar disorder: The role of stress, gut microbiota, lifestyle factors, and neuroinflammation
- Chapter 21 Beta cell stress and type 1 diabetes
- Chapter 22 General adaptation in critical illness 1: The glucocorticoid signaling system as master rheostat of homeostatic corrections in concerted action with nuclear factor-κB
- Chapter 23 General adaptation in critical illness 2: The glucocorticoid signaling system as a master rheostat of homeostatic corrections in concerted action with mitochondrial and essential micronutrient support
- Chapter 24 Prolonged glucocorticoid treatment in ARDS: Pathobiological rationale and pharmacological principles
- Chapter 25 The role of stress in mediating inflammation in the context of neurodegeneration
- Index