Fever and antipyresis :
Cooper, K. E.
Fever and antipyresis : the role of the nervous system / Fever & Antipyresis Keith E. Cooper. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 1 online resource (xv, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
This book provides a detailed overview of the function of the nervous system in fever and its role in antipyresis. The volume opens with an introductory account of fever, its physiology and adaptive role, and explains the mechanisms of thermoregulation. Sufficient information about bacterial pyrogens, 'endogenous' pyrogenic cytokines, body temperature regulation and survival value of fever and its ubiquity is given to enable readers to follow the central nervous system's involvement. The book should enable graduate students and researchers in neuroscience and other disciplines to understand the impact of their studies in the overall processes of fever. It will also be of benefit to pharmacologists studying anti-pyretics and the central nervous system function of these drugs. Academic clinicians will find this a more comprehensive overview of fever than other available texts. Finally, the author challenges some well-established dogmas in this area and sets an agenda for future research.
9780511526701 (ebook)
Fever--Pathophysiology.
Nervous system--Pathophysiology.
Body temperature--Regulation.
Pyrogens.
Antipyretics--Mechanism of action.
RB129 / .C66 1995
616/.047
Fever and antipyresis : the role of the nervous system / Fever & Antipyresis Keith E. Cooper. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 1 online resource (xv, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
This book provides a detailed overview of the function of the nervous system in fever and its role in antipyresis. The volume opens with an introductory account of fever, its physiology and adaptive role, and explains the mechanisms of thermoregulation. Sufficient information about bacterial pyrogens, 'endogenous' pyrogenic cytokines, body temperature regulation and survival value of fever and its ubiquity is given to enable readers to follow the central nervous system's involvement. The book should enable graduate students and researchers in neuroscience and other disciplines to understand the impact of their studies in the overall processes of fever. It will also be of benefit to pharmacologists studying anti-pyretics and the central nervous system function of these drugs. Academic clinicians will find this a more comprehensive overview of fever than other available texts. Finally, the author challenges some well-established dogmas in this area and sets an agenda for future research.
9780511526701 (ebook)
Fever--Pathophysiology.
Nervous system--Pathophysiology.
Body temperature--Regulation.
Pyrogens.
Antipyretics--Mechanism of action.
RB129 / .C66 1995
616/.047