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The Impact of Sex Steroids Hormones on Autoimmune Disease Activity: Mechanisms and Implications
Females display an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases, with a sexual dimorphism in the immune response.
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History and Opinion
Bridging Neurosciences and Immunology - An Overview
The brain and the immune system, or the “supersystems”, a term coined by Tada ...
Deregulation of Oxytocin and Vasopressin in Williams Syndrome: A New Model for Exploring Neurogenetics and Neurobiology of Human Social Behavior
Quote from the original paper’s abstract:
“Results revealed significantly ...
Rejecting Allergens: The Avoidance Behavior
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The immune system can recognize, assimilate or reject self and non-self componen...
Fundamental Aspects
Innervation of the Human Thymus and Spleen – an Overview
The immune and nervous systems are anatomically and functionally interconnected,...
ATP as a Neuromediator at the Interface of the Brain and the Immune System
The purinergic signaling system, also known as a ‘purinome’, represents extrac...
Clinical Aspects
Stress, Brain and Hormones and the Development of Organ Specific Autoimmunity – A Complex Interrelationship That Will Be Difficult To Tease Out
The evidence for stress contributing to the onset and course of autoimmune disea...
The Impact of Sex Steroids Hormones on Autoimmune Disease Activity: Mechanisms and Implications
Females display an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases, with a sexual dim...
Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions in Lung Inflammatory Diseases
Inflammation is the body’s response to insults. During inflammation, various inf...
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Prenatal Immune Challenge May Act As A ‘Disease Primer’ Increasing the Offspring’s Vulnerability to the Neuro-Pathological Effects of Stress in Puberty
Epidemiologic studies indicate that prenatal infection may play an important rol...
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Beta Blockers Improve Survival in Ovarian Cancer Patients
In the past few years, more than a dozen studies have suggested that beta blocke...
Direct Effect of Catecholamines on Bacterial Growth: A New Mechanism by Which Stress can Influence Digestive Health and Disease
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) consists of three components: the sympathetic...
Features and Faces
Richard Kvetnansky – 45 years of Stress Research
Richard Kvetnansky, M.D., is the head of the Laboratory of Stress Research at th...
Gerald Weissmann, Meryl Streep, Mechnikov and Inflammation: It's Complicated
In this recent Editorial, Gerald Weissmann, in his typical elegant and provoca...
Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy: New Advance, Catecholamine-Induced Inflammation and Future Perspectives
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy, also known as “Takotsubo” cardiomyopathy, broken ...
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