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Drugs of Abuse and Immune Function

Name: Drugs of Abuse and Immune Function
Author: Ronald R. Watson
ISBN: 9780849367472

by Ronald R. Watson

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This important publication provides up-to-date reviews using data from human patients and animal models. The goal is to understand the relationship between immunological modification by drugs of abuse and disease resistance. Examined are the major drugs of abuse and their effects on lymphoid cell function, numbers, development, and interactions. Also addressed are reviews of how ethanol, cocaine, morphine, and marijuana effect the immune function. The book includes evaluations of the relationship of immunomodulation by drugs of abuse on resistance to infectious diseases. This is critical to understanding how drugs modulate diseases and cancer development. This invaluable publication is important to those in biochemistry, physiology, chemistry, biology, immunology, cancer, medicine, pharmacology, microbiology, psychology, psychiatry, and additive studies. It is also of value to those in nutrition, pathology, pediatrics, family medicine, gerontology, surgery, sociology, and anatomy. Specialty groups, such as those in tropical medicine and public policy, will have a strong interest in the book. It is also of significant interest to organizations that deal with major numbers of patients using drugs of abuse and with their associated diseases including AIDS.

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Fourteen papers on opiates and cell-mediated immunity; ethanol and its effect on mucosal immunity; granulocyte development/function and myeloid cell differentiation; effects of prenatal drugs of abuse on development of lymphoid organs; marijuana and immunosuppression in man; modulation of murine immune cell function by marijuana components; nicotine and immunology; alcohol-produced malnutrition and immunosuppression; immunomodulation by tobacco; effects of morphine on lymphocyte function; ethanol and the B-cell: humoral immunity; ethanol and overall immunoregulation; alcohol and the macrophage; and opiate binding to cells of the immune systems. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)