3rd Annual Meeting of the Brain-Immune Network Group (BING)

4-5 September 1997

Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London, UK.

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Programme:

4th September

13:00-14:00 Registration.

14:00 Welcome/Introduction: Dr Alan Watkins

14:10 Session 1: Chaired by - Dr Mick Harbuz

Prof R Gaillard: Sex- and Stress-Steroid Interactions in the Immune System.

15:00 C1. J de Groot: Differential effects of predictable vs unpredictable stress on the specific immune response against pseudorabies virus in mice.

C2. R Braczkowski: The influence of recombinant tumor necrosis factor-a administration on prolactin secretion in patients with advanced neoplams.

C3. G Head: Modulation of rat thymic epithelial cell physiologies in vitro by progesterone may involved non-genomic mediation through sperm acrosome antigen-1.

19:30 Rendez-vous at the Ibis Hotel for evening trip to China Town (not inclusive).

5th September

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30 Session 2: Chaired by - Dr Alan Watkins

Prof Manfred Schedlowski: Stress, Adrenergic Mechanisms and Cellular Immune Function in Humans

10:20 C4. M Bauer: Restraint stress promotes expression of adhesion molecules on peripheral lymphocytes.

C5. A Clow: Direct evidence for cortical regulation of immune and glucocorticoid function in healthy conscious humans.

C6. F Hucklebridge: The 'stress of awakening': patters of free salivary cortisol resopnse and salivary sIgA.

11:10 Coffee

11:30 Session 3: Chaired by - Dr Terence Smith

Prof J Buckingham: Glucocorticoid-Regulated Proteins and the Neuroendocrine Response to Immune Insults

12:20 C7. S Pagliusi: Modulation of chemokine receptor CCR3 expression by LPS in a microglial cell line.

C8. G Head: Adrenergic modulation of thymulin release and electrophysiological changes in cultured epithelium from rat thymus.

C9. B Safieh-Garabedian: Thymulin-induced hyperalgesia is mediated through capsaicin sensitive primary afferent fibers.

13:10 Lunch and Poster Viewing.

15:00 Session 4: Chaired by - Prof Ashley Grossman

Prof F Haour: Brain Interleukin-1 System: Pharmacology and Modulation During Infection and Autoimmunce Disease.

15:50 C10. A Ballinger: Reduction in hypothalamic Neuropeptide-Y (NPY) concentrations in a model of anorexia associated with intestinal inflammation.

C11. P Murzenok: Modulation of IL-1b effects on the autonomic nervous system and immunocompetent cell function in the rat thymus by dexamethasone.

C12. C Marquette: Early IL-1 production in mouse brain and lymphoid organs after gamma irradition.

C13. M Satta: Induction of IL-1b and type I iNOS mRNA in rat hypothalamus and pituitary after endotoxin.