In <6li967$auu at dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> flefever at ix.netcom.com(F.
Frank LeFever) writes:
>>>>Still interested...
>>Waiting...
>>
DITTO JUNE 13, 1998; DO NOT ASSUME SOMEONE ELSE HAS ANSWERED! SURELY
SOMEBODY MUST HAVE SOME DATA OR AT LEAST SOME LEADS!
>>In <6ldaa6$ahc at dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> flefever at ix.netcom.com(F.
>Frank LeFever) writes:
>>>>There are many demonstrations of "conditioning" in the sense of acute
>>changes in reactions of one or the other system after some treatment
>or other (e.g. reaction to hypoxia an hour or so after mechanical
brain
>>trauma, or vice versa).
>>>>I am not interested in these.
>>>>I am looking for LONG-TERM "conditioning"--on the order of Pavlovian
>>conditioning or on the order of immnological "conditioning" (e.g.
>>specific antigen recognition, etc.).
>>>>For example: IL-1 production can be increased by various
manipulations
>>(e.g. brain trauma, hypoxia, LPS exposure, etc.); does a REMOTE
>history of this (e.g. at LEAST a few weeks prior) influence
subsequent
>IL-1 responses? e.g. influence on threshold for stimulation, on
>latency of response, on rate of production, on co-production of (e.g.)
>IL-1a (endogenous competitive ligand), or--?
>>>>Interested in brain but surely info from anyplace else (ovarian
>tissue, gut, heart, liver, whtever) could be useful.
>>>>Not ONLY IL-1--what about TNF? NO? and (beond this realm) NGF et al.?
>>>>re Pavlovian conditioning: 1987 paper on conditioning of mast cell
>>response (MacQueen) much cited, but don't know if actually replicated
>>or extended...
>>>>Post to bionet.immunology OR email me direct OR (if longer
>>communication, reprint, etc.): FAX (914) 786-4978 (att: LeFever)
>>>>MAIL: F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
>> Helen Hayes Hospital
>> West Haverstraw, NY 10993, USA
>>>
