The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Rook, Graham A.W. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Progress in Inflammation Research,
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8903-1
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.