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Title Infectious diseases and substance abuse / edited by Herman Friedman, Thomas W. Klein and Mauro Bendinelli
Published New York : Springer Science+Business Media, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 211 pages) : illustrations
Series Infectious agents and pathogenesis
Infectious agents and pathogenesis.
Contents Effects of Cocaine and Morphine Withdrawal on the Immune Response; Biological Links between Cannabinoids and HIV Infection; Cannabinoids and Herpesviruses; Cannabinoids and Susceptibility to Neurological Infection by Free-Living Amebae; Legionella Infection and Cannabinoids; Nicotine and Immunity; Nicotine Receptors and Infections; Immunomodulatory Effects of Cigarette Smoke/Nicotine; Regulation of Chemokine and Chemokine Receptor Expression and Function by Opioids; Morphine, Th1/Th2 Differentiation, and Susceptibility to Infection
Immunofluorescence Detection of Anti-CD3-e-Induced Delta Opioid Receptors by Murine Splenic T CellsModulation of Immune Function by Novel Opioid Receptor Ligands; Effect of Alcohol on Microbial Infection; Brucella Infection and Ethanol; Alcohol, Infection, and the Lung
Summary The influence of many drugs of abuse - licit and illicit - on immune function has been examined extensively over the years. This volume, part of the "Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis" series, examines a variety of drugs of abuse and how they affect the immune system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Drugs of abuse -- Physiological effect.
Immunosuppression.
Substance abuse -- Complications
Communicable diseases -- Etiology
Microbiology.
Immunity -- drug effects
Communicable Diseases -- immunology
Immune System -- drug effects
Substance-Related Disorders -- immunology
Immunosuppression Therapy
Immune Tolerance
Microbiology
microbiology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Immunology.
Medicine.
Microbiology.
Biomedicine.
Infectious diseases.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Communicable diseases -- Etiology
Drugs of abuse -- Physiological effect
Immunosuppression
Substance abuse -- Complications
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Friedman, Herman, 1931-2007.
Klein, Thomas W
Bendinelli, Mauro
LC no. 2004055317
ISBN 0306486873
0306486881
9780306486883
9780306486876
9786610608034
6610608032