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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019396403321

Titolo

Pyrogens and fever / / edited by G. E. W. Wolstenholme and Joan Birch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Churchill Livingstone, 1971

ISBN

9786613620484

9781280590658

1280590653

9780470719800

047071980X

9780470717455

0470717459

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation Symposia

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

BirchJoan

Disciplina

616.9/26/014

Soggetti

Pyrogens

Fever

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Ciba Foundation symposium."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PYROGENS AND FEVER; Contents; Note on terminology; Chairman's opening remarks; Some physiological and clinical aspects of pyrogens; Discussion; Production, chemistry and properties of bacterial pyrogens and endotoxins; Discussion; The significant immunological features of bacterial endotoxins; Discussion; Purification of an endogenous pyrogen, with an appendix on assay methods; Discussion; Role of leucocytes in fever; Discussion; Mechanism of action of pyrogenic and antipyretic steroids in vitro; Discussion; On the mechanism of action of pyrogens; Discussion

Hypothalamic mechanisms of pyrogen action in the cat and monkeyDiscussion; Relevance of experimental observations to pyrexia in clinical situations; Discussion; The mechanism of action of antipyretics; Discussion; Pharmaceutical aspects of pyrogens in hospital and industry; Discussion; The dilemma of quantitation in the test for pyrogens; Discussion; General discussion; Author index; Subject index



Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.