Neuronal modulation of the immune response

Nandi, Dipankar and Bhosale, Manoj (2008) Neuronal modulation of the immune response. In: Journal Of Biosciences, 35 (5). pp. 635-637.

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Abstract

The nervous and immune systems respond in distinct manners to diverse signals. Crosstalk between these systems has been known: microbial infections can result in infl ammation of nervous tissue and lead to conditions such as encephalitis and meningitis. Also, the immune response causes damage to nervous tissue during autoimmune diseases: extensive axonal damage is observed in multiple sclerosis due to demyelination and infi ltration by leukocytes (Mix et al 2007). To study the roles of immune molecules, researchers often use a mouse model of multiple sclerosis known as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in which disease is induced upon injection of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in Complete Freund’s adjuvant. Here, infl ammatory cytokines, e.g. Interferon-γ (Tran et al 2000) and Tumour necrosis Factor-α (Liu et al 1998), or Toll-like receptors (TLR)-4 or TLR-9, which detect microbial constituents (Marta et al 2008), play regulatory roles to reduce disease severity. In cases like these, it is not too surprising that infl ammatory immune molecules affect nervous tissues. On the other hand, proper understanding is lacking on how neuronal products modulate immune reactions, especially with respect to anti-pathogen responses.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal Of Biosciences
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Keywords:	Innate immunity; insulin-like peptides; insulin signalling
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2009 11:19
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:27
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/19189

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