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Thermotherapy for Neoplasia, Inflammation, and Pain

Kosaka, Sugahara, Schmidt, and Simon (Eds.), Springer-Verlag 2001, 299 pages, ISBN 4-431-70285-7

Content:

Part 1: Temperature Effects on Body Function: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Part 2: Hyperthermic Oncology
Part 3: Thermotherapy of Chronic Inflammatory / Degenerative Disease



Part 1: Temperature Effects on Body Function: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Title
The Central Organization of the Thermoregulatory System
Application of Heat and Cold: Physiological Responses and Therapeutic Implications
Cerebral Regulation ofThirst
Hypothalamic Neuroendocrine Responses to Cold and Dehydration Stress
Differential Activation of Nitrergic Hypothalamic Neurons by Heat Exposure and Dehydration
Thermoregulation as Survival Mechanism in Individuals and Species: Mutual Control of Body Temperature, Ingestion, and Reproduction in the Hypothalamus
Merits of Diluted Sweat with Training on Arterial Pressure and Body Temperature Regulation in Heat Stress
Thermal Stress and Water Supplementation

Adaptive Changes in Sweat Gland Function

Protective Measures Against Solar Radiant Heat and Ultraviolet Irradiation
Central and Peripheral Control of Sweating Mechanisms: Modifications byThermal Acclimatization and Physical Training
Global Warming and Deaths from Heat Stroke
Tackling Cold Stress
Brown Adipose TIssue and Nonshivering Thermogenesis in Stressful States
Diurnal and Seasonal Reactivity Patterns of Chemical Transmission in the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei and ether Brain Entities Related to Hibernation
Induced Hypothermia in Cardiovascular and Brain Surgery
Postanesthetic Shivering
Sympathetic Adjustment of Cardiovascular Contral and Thermoregulation in Humans Exposed to Heat Stress
Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity During Acute Increase in Core Temperature in Humans
Sympathetic Control of Sweating and Cutaneous Active Vasodilatation
Lesions of the Central Nervous System and Sudomotor Impairments
The Rat Tail as a Model Organ für Peripheral Vasodilation
Concept of Selective Brain Cooling and Hs Implication
Selective Brain Cooling in Mammals: General and Regional. Modes of Operation
The Role of Juvenile Thermoregulatory Thermogenesis in the Development of Normal Energy Balance or Obesity
Endocrine Responses to Heat and Cold Stress
Thermal Stress and Immunity
Autonomie and Neuroendoerine Modulation of Cellular Immunity
Exereise and Immunity
Changes in Immune Aetivities by Heat Stress
Autonomie and Endocrine Adjustments in Fever
Adaptive Changes in the Sympathetie Nervous and Endoerine Systems During Fever Indueed by Interleukin-1ß in Conseious Rats: Potential Neural Mechanism
Neuroanatomy of Fever: Loealization of Cytokine and Prostagiandin Systems in the Brain
Temperature Homeostasis and Redox Homeostasis
Fever and Related Host Defense Responses


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Part 2: Hyperthermic Oncology

Title
Stress Response: Overview
Induction of Heat-Shoek Proteins and Their Biological Functions
Fundamental Aspects of Hyperthermia on Cellular and Molecular Levels
Leaming from Baeteria: Molecular Chaperones in Ribosomes and Thermophilie Adaptation
Molecular Chaperone and Folding: Lessons from Heat Shock Protein Research
Modifieations of Stress Response in Mammalian Cells Incubated at Low Temperature, Thermotolerant Cells, and Neuronal Cells During Differentiation
Mammalian 105-kDa Heat-Shock Protein HSP105 and Its Biological Function
Induction of Heat-Shock Pro teins in Ischemie Heart and Myocardial Protection
Theoretical and Experimental Basis of Hyperthermia
Thermal Responses of Microcirculation and Modification of Tumor Blood Flow in Treating the Tumors
Heat Inactivation of DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase: Possible Mechanism of Hyperthermia Radiosensitization
Recent Aspects of Elucidating the Cellular Basis of Thermochemotherapy
Effects of Hyperthermia-lnduced Changes in pHValue on Tumor Response and Thermotolerance
Enhancement of Hyperthermia Effects Using Rapid Heating
Molecular and Cellular Factors Determining Cell Susceptibility to Heat Shock
Enhancement of Cytotoxie Effects of Chemotherapeutic Agents with Hyperthermia In Vitra
Radiofrequency Hyperthermia Alone in the Palliative Treatment of Mucinous Carcinomatosis: Optimizing and Monitoring Heat Delivery
Cancer Gene Therapy in Conjunction with Hyperthermia Under the Control of Heat- Inducible Promoter
Current Status of Clinical Hyperthermia Oncology in Japan
Physiology and Psychology in Hyperthermia Oncology: Contribution of Clinceal Oncologists in the Development of Heating of Deep-Seated Tumors

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Part 3: Thermotherapy of Chronic Inflammatory / Degenerative Disease

Title
Clinical Usefulness of Long- Term Thermohydrotherapy (Balneotherapy)
Combined Radon and Heat Exposure forTreatment of Rheumatic Diseases: A Clinical Approach
Thermonociception: Sensory and Modulatory Mechanisms in Pathological Conditions
Regulation of Efferent Functions of C-Fiber Nociceptors
Pathogenesis and New Strategies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Thermotherapy of Pain, Trauma, and Inflammatory and Degenerative Rheumatic Diseases

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