Neuro-Immune Interactions During Healthy State and Disease
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2020) | Viewed by 263
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For a long time, the brain was considered a separate entity that was hidden behind the blood–brain barrier. From there, like from a bunker, it would send commands via electrical and endocrine signaling. This notion, as well as the notion of brain immune-privilege, have long been dismissed. Recent discoveries in the topics of brain lymphatics, immune cell trafficking, autonomic nervous system influence on the immune system, etc., have drastically changed our view of the neuroimmune axis. Instead, this fieled has given rise to subjects like neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, and psychoneuroimmunology.
How the immune system changes brain function?
How can the brain change the function of the immune system?
Another question that is central to contemporary medicine is what determines whether immune responses play beneficial or detrimental roles in brain homeostasis.
This Issue is seeking to bring together cutting edge scientific research and provocative reviews that will help to brainstorm future directions in the research of the neuroimmune axis.
Dr. Denis GrisGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Brain lymphatics;
- Neuroinflammation;
- Neuroimmunology;
- Neuropsychoimmunlogy;
- Behavior;
- Sickness behavior;
- Astrocytes, microglia, macrophages, T and B lymphocytes, and neutrophils;
- Innate immunity;
- Adaptive immunity.
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