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Eco-immunology

Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Davide Malagoli

    1. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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  2. Enzo Ottaviani

    1. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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  • Present and future of eco-immunology
  • Limits of present-day immunology laboratories
  • Pros and cons of animal models of immune functions
  • Energy constrains and evolution of immune system
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. From Immunology to Eco-Immunology: More than a New Name

    • Mark E. Viney, Eleanor M. Riley
    Pages 1-19

  3. System Biology Models and Conceptualizations Applied to Eco-Immunology

    • Dominik Wodarz
    Pages 21-47

  4. Reproductive and Immune System Interactions in the Context of Life History and Sexual Selection Theory

    • Kenneth M. Fedorka
    Pages 49-72

  5. Host-Parasite Interactions

    • Jeb P. Owen, Dana M. Hawley
    Pages 73-92

  6. Immune-Neuroendocrine Integration and Its Evolution

    • D. Malagoli, E. Ottaviani
    Pages 93-104

  7. Thymic Maturation and Programmed Cell Death

    • Daniela Quaglino, Alice Accorsi, Federica Boraldi, Enzo Ottaviani
    Pages 105-124

  8. The New Antigenic Ecospace of the Globalized World and its Impact on the Immune System: The Battleground of Trade-off and Antagonistic Pleiotropy

    • Miriam Capri, Stefano Salvioli, Daniela Monti, Laura Bucci, Paolo Garagnani, Enzo Ottaviani et al.
    Pages 125-144

  9. Population Immunology: Germs, Aging and Inflammation

    • Ana Maria C. Faria, Claudio Franceschi
    Pages 145-161

  10. Mouse Models as Paradigms of Human Diseases

    • Lloyd A. Demetrius, Davide Malagoli
    Pages 163-177

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 179-179
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About this book

This book represents a cutting-edge contribution giving an all-around perspective of eco-immunology today. Beside questions of the utmost importance for the whole community of immunologists, e.g, the intrinsic limits of immunological experiments performed at the bench on a limited number of selected models, the book covers several other facets of the eco-immunological approach, including host-parasite interactions, human aging and population immunology. Throughout the book the importance of population dynamics and evolutionary diversification of immune systems is frequently recalled, and makes the reader aware of the basic similarities and differences existing between humans and the models adopted for studying human immune system. The evidenced differences have been recently challenging the reliability of several established animal models and in the book it is discussed for the first time in analytical terms whether mice are reliable models of human inflammatory disorders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Davide Malagoli, Enzo Ottaviani

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eco-immunology

  • Book Subtitle: Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives

  • Editors: Davide Malagoli, Enzo Ottaviani

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8712-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8711-6Published: 30 April 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0329-9Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8712-3Published: 11 April 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 179

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Immunology, Evolutionary Biology, Systems Biology

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