Cytokiness documents the life and groundbreaking achievements of Dr. Good who served as an editor for both the former and current editions of this work.

Features:

• Details all clinically relevant cytokines, including interleukins, interferons, enkephalins, and endorphins
• Explores cytokine-hormone interactions and the clinical implications of those interactions on the immune, endocrine, and central nervous systems
• Reviews the documented behavior effects of cytokine activity
• Considers genetic predispositions toward cytokine activity
• Discusses the role of interferon in health and disease
• Examines the clinical relevance of opioid-induced immonosuppression

Contents

1. Behavioral Effects of Cytokines: A Psychiatrist's Perspective
2. Worried to Death? Stress, Worry, and Immune Dysregulation in Health and HIV
3. Psychological Stress and Its Relationship to Cytokines and Inflammatory Diseases
4. Role of Cytokines in Depression
5. Loneliness, Dysphoria, Stress, and Immunity: A Role for Cytokines
6. Stress, Cytokines, and Peripheral Analgesia
7. Alexithymia, Stress, and Immunity
8. Roles of Mu-Opioid Receptor and Endogenous Opiates in Stress-Induced Immunosuppression
9. Stress, Opioid Peptides, and Immune Response
10. Met-Enkephalin in Oxidative Stress
11. Chronic Stress Induces Death of Lymphocytes
12. Interleukin- and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
13. Cytokines, Stress, and Depression
14. Immunoconversion in Acute Phase Response
15. Interferon in Health and Disease
16. Neuropeptide Precursor Processing in Immunocytes:
17. Involvement in Neuroimmune Communication
18. Clinical Relevance of Opioid-Induced Immunosuppression: Are All Drugs Similar
19. Human Retroviruses and the Cytokine Network
20. Psychiatric Toxicity of Interferon-?: A Model for Understanding the Etiology of Major Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
21. Role of Genetic Predisposition, Cytokines, and Neuroendocrine
22. Response in Development of Thyroid Autoimmunity
23. Gender Differences, Stress, and Immunity

Index

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