Bøger af Herman Friedman

A wide variety of immunomodulators are now being studied in terms of treating infectious diseases, as well as malignancy and autoimmune diseases. The proceedings of the International conference on [title], held in Tampa, Florida, May 1991, comprise reviews of the effects of biological response modif

Stress, the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, and Immune Function; M. Stein, A.H. Miller. Psychological Stress, Immunity and Immune Depression; A. Falek. Opiods, Receptors, and Immunity; M.W. Adler, et al. Consequences of Opiate-Dependency in a Monkey Model of AIDS; R.M. Donahoe, et al. Effects of Opioids on Proliferation of Mature and Immature Immune Cells; H.H Loh, et al. Immune Alterations in Chronic Morphine-Treated Rhesus Monkeys; D.J.J. Carr, C.P. France. Immunosuppressive Effects of Morphine on Immune Responses in Mice; T.K. Eisenstein, et al. MorphineInduced Modulation of Immune Status; D.T. Lysle, et al. Morphine Binding Sites on Human T Lymphocytes; J.J. Madden, et al. Marijuana and Bacterial Infections; T.W. Klein, et al. Effects of Marijuana on Spleen Lymphocytes from Mice of Different Age Groups; S. Pross, et al. Syphilis and Drugs of Abuse; L.J. Paradises, H. Friedman. Marijuana and Host Resistance to Herpesvirus Infection; G.A. Cabral, et al. 24 additional articles. Index.

Staphylococcus aureus is now acknowledged as being the most important bacterial pathogen of humans. It usually produces localized disease but can be rapidly invasive, spreading through the tissues, invading bone, and seeding the bloodstream to produce a fulminant picture of septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rapid death. Moreover, most strains of staph infections are becoming resistant to most antibiotics, thus posing a significant problem for hospitals and health care facilities. This book, a volume in the Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis series, presents chapters by the major researchers in the field.

The discovery and concept that Helicobacter pylori is associated with gastric disease including gastric cancer which is one of the most common and frequently lethal forms of malignancy, heralded a new and rapidly expanding field recognizing the emergence of many new pathogens and disease syndromes in clinical medicine, as well as basic infectious disease research. There is now an extensive and widely known literature of how H. pylori is involved in a wide variety of disease syn- dromes. As summarized in the introductory chapter of this volume, many major advances have been made in diagnosis, both serologic and endoscopic in time of the involvement of this organism in patients with upper GI ailments as well as its presence in those who are not clinically ill. The Introduction describes the rapid development of understanding the role of this organism in disease. The basic bacteriology of H. pylori is then described in the second chapter. Diagnostic tests for detecting H. pylori infection is then highlighted, as well as the role of such infection in gastric cancer. Current knowledge concerning risk factors and peptic ulcer pathology associated with H. pylori is then described. Newer information concerning therapy of H. pylori infection and colonization is described in a subsequent chapter as well as one concerning the effects of anti- biotics on H. pylori infection. The extensive literature on natural substances with anti-H.

This book contains 32 chapters based on the corresponding papers delivered at the International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Immunity, held in Siena, Italy on May 2-4, 1985 as a Satellite Symposium of the Third International Conference on Immunopharmacology, held in Florence, Italy on May 6-10, 1985.

It became widely accepted that during infections with many gram negative organisms the fever occurring in patients, as well as many of the untoward pathophysiological effects of the infections, seemed to be due to the endotoxin the bacteria contained or released.

This publication, "Viruses, Immunity and Immunodeficiency," is based on the first symposium in a series of International Biomedical Symposia sponsored by the College of Medicine of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Offers a review of information on the pathogenesis and immune response elicited by members of the genera Rickettsia, Ehrlichia, Coxiella, Orlentia, and Bartonella, in contributions authored by the clinicians and researchers who work with these organisms.