Download or read book Neuropeptides and Immunopeptides: Messengers in a Neuroimmune Axis. Volume 594. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences written by M. S. O'Dorisio and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactions between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems require a complex communication network. As a first step in understanding this network, we have organized a symposium to focus on the peptides that serve as messengers in this communication pathway. The first session of this symposium focuses on the role of neuropeptides in modulation of the immune response. We then turn our attention to the role of hormones in both the central nervous system and the immune response. To complete the neuro-endo-immune axis, we discuss the role of the cytokines that interact with neurons to regulate both neurotransmitter and hormone release. Though these sections have been arbitrarily divided into neuropeptides, peptide hormones, and immunopeptides, we hope you will read this volume thinking of peptides as global messengers in the neuroimmune communication network. Keywords: Symposia; Medical research; Human pathophysiology; Depression; Stress(Physiology); Immuno suppression; Immunotherapy of malignancy;; Intestinal transplantation; Neurotropic viruses; HIV; Human Immunodeficiency Virus. (jg).