The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine - Rook, Graham A.W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009)
Introduction: The changing microbial environment, Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis -- The paleolithic disease-scape, the hygiene hypothesis, and the second epidemiological transition -- Immunoregulation by microbes and parasites in the control of allergy and autoimmunity -- Hepatitis A virus, TIM-1 and allergy -- Linking lifestyle with microbiota and risk of chronic inflammatory disorders -- Soil bacteria, nitrite and the skin -- The hygiene hypothesis and allergic disorders -- Multiple sclerosis -- Inflammatory bowel disease and the hygiene hypothesis: an argument for the role of helminths -- The hygiene hypothesis and Type 1 diabetes -- The hygiene hypothesis and affective and anxiety disorders -- Immune regulation in atherosclerosis and the hygiene hypothesis -- The 'delayed infection' (aka 'hygiene') hypothesis for childhood leukaemia -- Is there room for Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis in Alzheimer pathogenesis? -- Alternative and additional mechanisms to the hygiene hypothesis.
Keywords: Immunology; Infectious diseases; Medical microbiology; Cell biology; Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Medical Microbiology; Cell Biology