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The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine
Man has moved rapidly from the hunter-gatherer environment to the living conditions of the rich industrialised countries. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that the resulting changed and reduced pattern of exposure to micro-organisms has led to disordered regulation of the immune system, and hence to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Progress in Inflammation Research,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The changing microbial environment, Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis
- The paleolithic disease-scape, the hygiene hypothesis, and the second epidemiological transition
- Immunoregulation by microbes and parasites in the control of allergy and autoimmunity
- Hepatitis A virus, TIM-1 and allergy
- Linking lifestyle with microbiota and risk of chronic inflammatory disorders
- Soil bacteria, nitrite and the skin
- The hygiene hypothesis and allergic disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Inflammatory bowel disease and the hygiene hypothesis: an argument for the role of helminths
- The hygiene hypothesis and Type 1 diabetes
- The hygiene hypothesis and affective and anxiety disorders
- Immune regulation in atherosclerosis and the hygiene hypothesis
- The 'delayed infection' (aka 'hygiene') hypothesis for childhood leukaemia
- Is there room for Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis in Alzheimer pathogenesis?
- Alternative and additional mechanisms to the hygiene hypothesis.