Beyond the borders: The gates and fences of Neuroimmune interaction

• Main Author: Javier Velazquez-Moctezuma (auth)
• Other Authors: Emilio Dominguez-Salazar (auth), Beatriz Gomez-Gonzalez (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Brain; Nervous System; Immune System; Cytokines; endocrine sytem; Hormones; Neuro-imuno-endocrine; brain barriers
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Neuroimmunology is a rapidly growing emerging field at which two old sciences have converged to integrate two different types of responses into a single coherent response involving the coordinated action of both systems, neural and immune. During long time it was thought that both systems worked sep...