Brain Superautoantigens: Connections between Immune and Neural Repertoires
Opinion Article Introduction Although human cells express a quasi-infinite number of potential autoantigens, only a limited range of the human “self” antigen library is actually targeted by pathological autoimmunity. Accordingly, the clinical expression of human autoimmunity is essentially restricted to relatively few stereotyped disorders including psoriasis, diabetes, vitiligo, thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Thus, […]
Neuroendocrine-Immunology Progress and Development Stories: 2016 in Review
Editorial Neuroendocrine-immunology has achieved substantial progress and growth over the last year. As the BrainImmune mission is to promote the advancement of this research field, it is becoming a tradition to recapitulate the latest developments in this relatively new interdisciplinary area that bridges neurosciences and immunology. Note that this is not a complete list, but […]
2015 Bringing Some Major Advances in Neuroendocrine Immunology
Editorial In 2003, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA, launched the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, marking the renaissance in interdisciplinary research, and outlining new perspectives of cutting-edge 21st century work that crosses disciplines. The ‘interdisciplinary research’, as per the Roadmap, was defined as “integrating the analytical strengths of two or more […]
Rainer Straub and the Origin of Chronic Inflammatory Systemic Diseases
SHORT FEATURES and FACES ARTICLE Synopsis of the Book The Origin of Chronic Inflammatory Systemic Diseases and Their Sequelae by Rainer H Straub Academic Press/Elsevier Chronic inflammatory systemic diseases (CIDs) are a burden to humans because approximately 10% of the population is affected by long-standing chronic inflammatory illness. The numbers would be extensively higher if […]
GEBIN, the German-Endocrine-Brain-Immune-Network
GEBIN is a network that combines activities in different German scientific societies with a special interest in Behavior-Neuro-Endocrine-Immune interactions. People interested in GEBIN typically concentrate on interdisciplinary research foci. The different German scientific societies have so-called study groups which bridge the own discipline and other research subjects. The spokesmen of these study groups come together […]
Neuroimmunomodulation, Journal, Karger
Neuroimmunomodulation (Karger) publishes peer-reviewed basic and clinical studies related to the interdisciplinary research field of neuroimmunomodulation, the way in which the nervous system interacts with the immune system via neural, hormonal, and paracrine actions. The journal covers both basic and clinical aspects of this rapidly growing research area. Basic or fundamental work and studies deal […]
Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society
Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) is an international organization for researchers in a number of scientific and medical disciplines. This includes psychology, neurosciences, immunology, pharmacology, psychiatry, behavioral medicine, infectious diseases, endocrinology and rheumatology, who are interested in interactions between the nervous system and the immune system, and the relationship between behavior and health. Read more:
International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation (ISNIM)
The International Society for NeuroImmunoModulation (ISNIM) is a professional society composed of clinical and basic research scientists from all over the world. Its members are concerned with the communication and regulatory mechanisms integrating the nervous, endocrine and immune systems in both health and disease. ISNIM members investigate neural and endocrine mechanisms of immune regulation as […]
Evolutionary Medicine, Energy Regulation and the Pathogenesis of Systemic Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Evolving Concepts The general meaning of the systemic response in inflammatory diseases is not well understood. Nor do we know whether the systemic response has any unfavorable role when inflammatory diseases become chronic. We call chronic inflammatory diseases (CIDs) “systemic in nature”, but the significance of these systemic signs and symptoms is not known. In […]
