The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine
Man has moved rapidly from the hunter-gatherer environment to the living conditions of the rich industrialised countries. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that the resulting changed and reduced pattern of exposure to micro-organisms has led to disordered regulation of the immune system, and hence to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: | Progress in Inflammation Research
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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