Environmental Influences on the Immune System - Esser, Charlotte; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Preface -- Principal players and structure of the immune system -- Immunosuppression by UV-irradiation -- "Eat your veggies" How food-derived AhR ligands are necessary for the development of a functioning gut immune system -- The "Hygiene Theory" - how the immune system learns its balance by exposure to the right bacteria -- Immunotoxicity of dioxins -- Toxic dust and the immune system -- Adrenalin, cortisol and Co: Stress and the immune system -- Immunity and depression: Does inflammation affect our mood?- Diabetes and low-level persistent inflammation caused by the environment -- Mechanisms of major immunosuppressive drugs -- The immune system in the young -- Immunity and age - exhaustion of repertoire by immune experience -- Major research models -- Epigenetic imprinting influences on the immune competence -- Contact allergy and life-style -- Chemicals breaking tolerance leading to allergies and autoimmunity -- The challenge of predicting immunotoxic potential of chemicals -- Environmental pollution and industrial accidents such as Bhopal- a human rights perspective. .
Keywords: Immunology; Pharmacology; Human physiology; Immunology; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology