Bridging neurosciences and immunology – historical perspectives Bridging neurosciences and immunology provides some historical perspectives on major figures, events, concepts...
Caleb Parry and Hyperthyroidism and Stress The disease that we commonly call Graves’ disease, or Basedow’s disease in part of...
Louis Pasteur – Disease-Environment Interactions Threats of bioterrorism have renewed interest in learning more about all aspects of anthrax, particularly...
Genesis – Concept of Chemical Neurotransmission Although the first suggestion that a chemical transmitter might be involved with synaptic events...
Mental State – Tuberculosis Tohru Ishigami was born in 1857, in the midst of a tempestuous period in Japanese history....
Philip Hench – Cortisone Corticosteroids, despite their well-recognized adverse effects, are an essential component in the treatment of many types...
Bartolomeo Eustachius – Adrenal Glands Bartolomeo Eustachius was born in 1524 in San Severino Marche, a little town situated in...
Claude Bernard – BrainImmune Claude Bernard was born on 12 July 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien, in France’s Beaujolais...
Discovery – adrenaline The first practical discovery of adrenaline by man occurred when one of our ancestral hominids while out...
Walter Cannon – Homeostasis – Fight-or-Flight Response Scientific integrative medicine finds its roots in the seemingly simple but actually enormously...
Serguei Metalnikov – Immune Conditioning Any student of physiology is thoroughly familiar with Pavlov’s original work on classical conditioning, which...
Hans Selye – BrainImmune In 1936 a half page report appeared in Nature magazine under the title “A syndrome produced...