2nd Annual Meeting of the Brain-Immune Network Group (BING).

1st November 1996, Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London, UK.

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Meeting Programme.

09:00-09:20 Registration

09:30 Session 1: Chaired by -  Dr Mick Harbuz

Prof. N Rothwell: Involvement of Interleukin-1 in Neurodegeneration.

10:10 C1. KA Young: Lipocortin-1 expression in normal and kainic acid-lesioned rat cerebellum.

C2. GJC Wilde: Tumour necrosis factor-a attenuates ischaemic and excitotoxic neuronal damage put potentiates free radical-mediated death.

10:40 Coffee

11:00 Session 2: Chaired by - Dr Alan Watkins

Dr M Irwin: Psychoneuroimmunology in Depression.

11:40 C3. J Gruzelier: Immune function and exam stress: beneficial effects of hypnosis training and an individual difference that predicts immune competence.

C4. R Deinzer: Clinical relevance and temporal dynamics of stress-induced immune alterations in humans.

12:10-14:00 Lunch/Poster viewing

14:00 Session 3: Chaired by - Dr Terence Smith

Dr J Bienenstock: Neuro-Immune Interactions in the Gut.

14:40 C5. J Roth: Induction of fever and systemic production of cytokines in response to single or repeated injections of muramyl-dipeptide as compared by LPS in guinea pigs.

C6. R F PArrot: Comparison of the anti-pyretic effects of indomethacin and L-745-377, a novel cyclooxygenase-2 antagonist, in prepubertal pigs treated with endotoxin.

15:10 Tea.

15:30 Session 4: Chaired by - Prof Ashley Grossman

Prof F Tilders: Sustained Effects of Cytokines: Neuroplasticity, Stress and Immunomodulation.

16:10 C7. N Shanks: Alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis associated with murine systemic lupus erythematosus in the MRL lpr/lpr model.

C8. A Buske-Kirschbaum: Low free cortisol response to psychological stress in children with atopic disorders.

16:40 Thanks and close of meeting.