Environmental influences on the immune system. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charlotte Esser, editor.
• Editors: Esser, Charlotte
• Contents: Preface -- Principal players and structure of the immune system -- Immunosuppression by UV-irradiation -- “Eat your veggies” How food-derived AhR ligands are necessary for the development of a functioning gut immune system -- The “Hygiene Theory” – how the immune system learns its balance by exposure to the right bacteria -- Immunotoxicity of dioxins -- Toxic dust and the immune system -- Adrenalin, cortisol and Co: Stress and the immune system -- Immunity and depression: Does inflammation affect our mood?- Diabetes and low-level persistent inflammation caused by the environment -- Mechanisms of major immunosuppressive drugs -- The immune system in the young -- Immunity and age – exhaustion of repertoire by immune experience -- Major research models -- Epigenetic imprinting influences on the immune competence -- Contact allergy and life-style -- Chemicals breaking tolerance leading to allergies and autoimmunity -- The challenge of predicting immunotoxic potential of chemicals -- Environmental pollution and industrial accidents such as Bhopal– a human rights perspective. .
• Publisher Details: Vienna : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.079; Immune system; Environmental health; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Environmental health; Immune system; Biomedicine; Immunology; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Human Physiology; Immune System; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783709118900; 3709118905; 3709118883; 9783709118887
• Related ISBNs: 9783709118887
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 9, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.