Beta Adrenergic Theory – Allergy and Asthma Fifty six years ago Andor Szentivanyi and colleagues were the first to document...
Bridging neurosciences and immunology – historical perspectives Bridging neurosciences and immunology provides some historical perspectives on major figures, events, concepts...
Claude Bernard – BrainImmune Claude Bernard was born on 12 July 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien, in France’s Beaujolais...
Hans Selye – BrainImmune In 1936 a half page report appeared in Nature magazine under the title “A syndrome produced...
Philip Hench – Cortisone Corticosteroids, despite their well-recognized adverse effects, are an essential component in the treatment of many types...
Discovery – adrenaline The first practical discovery of adrenaline by man occurred when one of our ancestral hominids while out...
Bartolomeo Eustachius – Adrenal Glands Bartolomeo Eustachius was born in 1524 in San Severino Marche, a little town situated in...
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...
Mental State – Tuberculosis Tohru Ishigami was born in 1857, in the midst of a tempestuous period in Japanese history....
Serguei Metalnikov – Immune Conditioning Any student of physiology is thoroughly familiar with Pavlov’s original work on classical conditioning, which...
Discovery of Interferon I first met Alick Isaacs in November, 1955. He immediately struck me as an extremely intelligent and...