Sympathetic Nervous System & Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune condition characterized by chronic inflammation occurring locally within...
Clinical Overviews
Clinical aspects of brain-immune interactions
Inflammation is the body’s response to insults. During inflammation, various inflammatory cells are activated to release cytokines and mediators and...
Sympathetic-immune interface in gastrointestinal tract The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is an integrative interface between the central nervous system and...
The neuroendocrine and the immune system are important homeostatic mechanisms maintaining the integrity of the organism. The efficacy of these...
Sex Steroids and Autoimmune Disease – BrainImmune Females display an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases, with a sexual dimorphism in...
Aging and sympathetic innervation in lymphoid organs Current therapeutic strategies in medicine emphasize the influence of “mind” over “body” in...
Pregnancy & Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic, chronic inflammatory disorder, characterized by symmetrical polyarthritis and presence of...
Thyroid Hormone Modulation of Immune Responses – BrainImmune Recent evidence indicates the presence of bidirectional interactions between the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT)...