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Immune Mechanisms of Pain and Analgesia


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Halina Machelska
Freie Universität-Berlin

Christoph Stein
Freie Universität-Berlin


ISBN: 978-0-306-47692-1
Pub date: 2002-11-01
166 pages
53 figures


Table of contents

Opioid receptors on immune cells
BM. Sharp

Effects of opioids on the immune system: Experimental evidence for immunomodulatory effects of opioids.
P. Sacerdote

Clinical relevance of immunomodulatory effects of opiates.
R.M. Donahoe

Opioid peptides in immune cells.
J.E. Blalock

Opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons: Electrophysiology
E. McCleskey

Opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons: Anatomical localization and analgesia
C. Stein

Immune-suppressive effects of pain.
G.G. Page

Opioids, immune system and pain in invertebrates.
G.B. Stefano

Cytokines and centrally mediated pain
L.R. Watkins

Cytokines and peripherally mediated pain.
SH. Ferreira

Cytokines and peripheral analgesia.
M. Schäfer

Functional evidence of pain control by the immune system.
H. Machelska , C. Stein

Morphological correlates of immune-mediated peripheral opioid analgesia.
S.A. Mousa

Anti-inflammatory effects of opioids.
J.S. Walker