Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part I: The nervous system, receptors, ligands and signal transduction -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Introduction -- History -- The discovery of immune-neuroendocrine circuitry -- A generation of Progress -- Chapter II. The Nervous System -- A historical perspective -- Altered effector responses -- Some evolutionary morphoregulatory and functional aspects of the immune-neuroendocrine circuitry -- Virus associated immune and pharmacologic mechanisms in disorders of respiratory and cutaneous atopy -- Chapter III. Receptors, ligands and signaling -- Adhesion molecules -- Immunoglobulins -- Growth and lactogenic hormones, insulin-like growth factor and insulin -- The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and opioid peptides -- The hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis -- Nerve growth factror, leptin and neuropeptides -- Cytokines and chemokines -- Steroid hormones -- Regulatory enzymes -- Part II: Neuroimmune Function and the Neuroimmune Regulatory Network -- Chapter IV. Neuroimmune function -- A. Physiology -- B. Pathophysiology -- Chapter V. Immune-Neuroendocrine circuitry -- The Immune-Neuroendocrine Circuitry -- Keyword index -- Last Page.