Product Description: Cytokines and Mental Health explores the relationship between cytokines, neural circuitry and mental health. It is interdisciplinary and "translational", bringing together information that spans the spectrum from the molecular and cellular levels to the patient and the clinic...read more

Product Description: N aney J. Rothwell ytokine neurobiology is now a hot topic! Only a few years ago C most neuroscientists were only dimly aware of cytokines and knew little about their function or biological importance. Cytokines, now a huge collection of polypeptides with diverse activities, were until quite recently, studied by those interested in the immune system, inflamma­ tion, cancer or infection in peripheral tissues, and did not feature in neuroscience...read more

Product Description: This book opens a new page of neuro-immunobiology providing substantive experimental and clinical data to support current understanding in the field, and potential applications of this knowledge in the treatment of disease. The volume is a collection of complex, new data drawn from multiple areas of investigation in the field...read more

Product Description: Brain Neurosecretory Cytokines: Immune Response and Neuronal Survival summarizes the biological and chemical data of signal molecules of the brain neuroendocrine immune system, mainly proline-rich peptides, which play an important role in the regulation of immune response, neuronal survival, hematopoiesis, and adaptation...read more

Product Description: The role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of disease is an area of research offering exciting challenges for scientists developing new disease interventions. Cytokines are proteins secreted by immune and inflammatory cells that circulate in the blood or extracellular space and bind to specific receptors activating a cascade of intracellular signals, which ultimately affect the growth, differentiation, and viability of cells...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cytokines are regulatory proteins that act as intercellular communication signals in a variety of processes, including embryonic development, haematopoiesis, stress, inflammation, immunity and tissue repair. Studies since the early 1980s have established the vital role of cytokines in humans and rodent models for the immune, endocrine and neuronal systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is about cytokines and their roles in solid organ transplantation. It gives an overview of cytokine biology and then analyzes how cytokines contribute to a variety of intragraft events including non-specific inflammation, acute rejection and chronic rejection. This volume is useful for those with either a clinical or a research interest in transplantation. The comprehensive reviews of our current knowledge of cytokines in a range of transplantation-related topics include extensive and up-to-date references, making this monograph useful not only as an overview but also as a reference source.

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Product Description: This book considers clinical problems associated with new modalities of cancer treatment involving recombinant cytokines. The first half of the book is devoted to various types of associations of cytokines with tumor cells, while the second half addresses the therapeutic potential of multidisciplinary devices in biological treatment with recombinant cytokine...read more

Product Description: Presents a sampling of new and novel approaches to the amelioration of musculoskeletal disease pathology, emphasizing prevention and therapy. Where applicable, these new technologies are focused on their application to human autoimmune diseases, but the volume mainly discusses and details the use o...read more