The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine

Man has moved rapidly from the hunter-gatherer environment to the living conditions of the rich industrialised countries. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that the resulting changed and reduced pattern of exposure to micro-organisms has led to disordered regulation of the immune system, and hence to...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rook, Graham A. W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
Series:Progress in Inflammation Research
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505 0 # |a Introduction: The changing microbial environment, Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis -- The paleolithic disease-scape, the hygiene hypothesis, and the second epidemiological transition -- Immunoregulation by microbes and parasites in the control of allergy and autoimmunity -- Hepatitis A virus, TIM-1 and allergy -- Linking lifestyle with microbiota and risk of chronic inflammatory disorders -- Soil bacteria, nitrite and the skin -- The hygiene hypothesis and allergic disorders -- Multiple sclerosis -- Inflammatory bowel disease and the hygiene hypothesis: an argument for the role of helminths -- The hygiene hypothesis and Type 1 diabetes -- The hygiene hypothesis and affective and anxiety disorders -- Immune regulation in atherosclerosis and the hygiene hypothesis -- The <U+0018>delayed infection<U+0019> (aka <U+0018>hygiene<U+0019>) hypothesis for childhood leukaemia -- Is there room for Darwinian medicine and the hygiene hypothesis in Alzheimer pathogenesis?- Alternative and additional mechanisms to the hygiene hypothesis. 
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