AIDS, Drugs of Abuse, and the Neuroimmune Axis

This volume represents the Proceedings of the Symposium on AIDS, Drugs of Abuse and the Neuroimmune Axis. This meeting was held in San Diego, California, November 11-13, 1995. As in the previous symposia in this series, productive studies were reviewed concerning the relationship between the nervous...

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Other Authors: Friedman, Herman (Editor), Eisenstein, Toby K. (Editor), Madden, John J. (Editor), Sharp, Burt M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 24. Inhaled Isobutyl Nitrite Produced Lung Inflammation with Increased Macrophage TNF-? and Nitric Oxide Production
  • 25. Cytokine Action in the Nervous System at Pathophysiological versus Pharmacological Concentrations
  • 26. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Effects of CNS Expression of Cytokines in Transgenic Mice
  • 27. IL1 Beta Impairs Relational but not Procedural Rodent Learning in a Water Maze Task
  • 28. TNF?: A Neuromodulator in the Central Nervous System
  • 29. Drugs of Abuse as Possible Co-Factors in AIDS Progression: Summary of Panel Discussion
  • 12. Effects of Centrally Administered Opioid Agonists on Macrophage Nitric Oxide Production and Splenic Lymphocyte Proliferation
  • 13. Prenatal Morphine Exposure Interacts with Adult Stress to Affect Type and Number of Blood Leucocytes
  • 14. Endogenous Cannabinoid Ligands
  • 15. Cannabinoids and Immunity to Legionella pneumophila Infection
  • 16. Cannabinoids and Interleukin-6 Enhance the Response to NMDA in Developing CNS Neurons
  • 17. Cannabinoid Receptor Expression in Immune Cells
  • 18. Cannabinoids and Immunity to Viruses
  • 19. Alteration of Macrophage Functions by Cocaine
  • 20. Divergent Effects of Cocaine on Cytokine Production by Lymphocytes and Monocyte/Macrophages: HIV-1 Enhancement by Cocaine within the Blood-Brain Barrier
  • 21. Effects on Mouse Thymocyte Biology: A Mini-Overview with Some New Evidence
  • 22. Immunopathogenesis of HIV Infection: Role of Alcohol and HIV Peptides
  • 23. HIV-1Neuropathogenesis and Abused Drugs: Current Views, Problems, and Solutions
  • 1. AIDS, Drugs of Abuse and the Neuroimmune Axis: Introduction and Perspectives
  • 2. The Effect of Novel Opioids on Natural Killer Activity and Tumor Surveillance in Vivo
  • 3. Kappa Opioid Receptors on Immune Cells as Studied by Fluorescent Ligands
  • 4. Presence of Opiate Alkaloid-Selective µ3 Receptors in Cultured Astrocytes and in Brain and Retina
  • 5. Opiates, Glia, and Neurotoxicity
  • 6. Morphine Affects the Brain-Immune Axis by Modulating an Interleukin-1 Beta Dependent Pathway
  • 7. Opioid Dependency and the Progression of Simian AIDS: Mortality and Behavioral Observations
  • 8. Endogenous Opioids and HIV Infection
  • 9. Methionine Enkephalin Used in Combination with Azidothymidine in Murine Retrovirus Infection
  • 10. On the Evolution of Opioid Mechanisms and Immune Defenses
  • 11. Purification and Characterization of a Secreted T-Cell ?-Endorphin Endopeptidase