Study of neuroimmunoendocrine interactions in hygiene, pathophysiological and pathological situations

Project description

Functional interactions between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems form regulatory networks that allow the internal regulation of vertebrates for recurrent internal and external variations (endogenous and environmental cyclical variations) or for those  occurrences that can not be anticipated (exposure to pathogens, onset of tumors and non-recurring environmental changes, among others).

In this project, we evaluated the interactions between the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal / interenal (HPA / HPI) axis, the catecholaminergic system, the cholinergic system and the immune system in healthy environments, acute and non-lethal acute inflammatory processes , chronic inflammatory processes, tumor development and during stress responses triggered by environmental changes (global warming, habitat fragmentation, among others).