Can nerve damage disrupt neuroendocrine immune homeostasis? Leprosy as a case in point

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-22

  Rook, Graham A W ^a   Lightman, Stafford L ^b   Heijnen, Cobi J ^c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LEPROSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEPROSY; NERVE FIBERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036154724     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4906(01)02090-7     Document Type: Review

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