Main description:

This new edition highlights the numerous advances made in the field of microbial endocrinology over the last five years. Prominent among these new topics featured is the emergence of the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the role it plays in brain function. Specific focus is given to the role of microbial endocrinology in the evolutionary symbiosis between man and microbe as it relates to both health and disease. With new chapters on the microbiome and its relation to neurochemicals, this new edition brings this important volume up to date.

Contents:

1. Microbial Endocrinology: An Ongoing Personal Journey Mark Lyte

2. New Trends and Perspectives in Evolutionary Considerations of Neurotransmitters in Microbial, Plant and Animal Cells
Victoria Roshchina

3. Catecholamine-directed Epithelial Cell Interactions With Bacteria in the Intestinal Mucosa David Brown

4. Modulation of the Interaction of Enteric Bacteria with Intestinal Mucosa Mark P. Stevens

5. Dietary Catechols and their Relationship to Microbial Endocrinology Neil Shearer

6. Mechanisms by Which Catecholamines Induce Growth in Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Human Pathogens
Primrose Freestone

7. Molecular Profiling: Catecholamine Modulation of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Bradley L. Bearson

8. Microbial Endocrinology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa John C. Alverdy

9. Interkingdom Chemical Signaling in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
Melissa Kendall

10. Role of Microbial Endocrinology in Periodontal Disease Anthony Roberts

11. Staphylococci, Catecholamine Inotropes and Hospital-Acquired Infections Primrose Freestone
12. Experimental Design Considerations for In Vitro Microbial Richard Haigh

13. The Role of the Microbiome in the Relationship of Asthma and Affective Disorders
Ana Francisca Trueba

14. Psychological Stress, Immunity and Effects on Indigenous Flora Michael T. Bailey

15. Microbiome to Brain: Unraveling the Multidirectional Axes of Communication John Cryan

16. Mycologic Endocrinology Karl Clemons