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"Conditioning"--IL-1 et al.

Hao Chen chenhao at pilot.msu.edu
Fri Jun 19 10:56:38 EST 1998


F. Frank LeFever wrote:
Pavlovian conditioning of immune response is the ongoing research in
several labs in the US as far as I know. They are Robert Ader and
Nicholas Cohen from University of Rochester, Donald Lysle from
University of North Carolina, and also Raymond Hiramoto from University
of Alabama at Birmingham. 

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Hao Chen


> >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
> >>
> >



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