Edited By
I. Berczi, University of Manitoba, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, 795 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, R3E 0W3 Manitoba, Canada
R.M. Gorczynski, The Toronto Hospital, Department of Surgery and Immunology, CCRW 2-855, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description
A new scientific discipline, acknowledged 65 years after its discovery, was the focus of the first Conference on Neuroimmune Biology in
Canada. The papers presented at the conference, and in this volume, are dedicated to Dr. Hans Selye who is recognized as discovering
the existence of a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-thymus axis. This axis plays an important role in the adaptation of higher animals
and man to various physical, chemical, biological and emotional challenges.
The conference and participants also honored Dr. Andor
Szentivanyi whose opening paper, "Studies on the hypothalamic regulation of histamine synthesis", is contained in the introduction to
this book. Dr. Szentivanyi has dedicated his long research career to the clarification of the role of the central nervous system in
immune and inflammatory reactions, and his experimental results are presented here.
With an ultimate goal to achieve a more thorough
understanding of higher organisms in their entire complexity, this book, the first in the series
NeuroImmune
Biology presents a coordinated and integrated view of the growing body of knowledge rapidly accumulating in this area.
Included in series
NeuroImmune Biology
