Environmental Influences on the Immune System /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Vienna :
Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. .