Thermotherapy for Neoplasia, Inflammation, and Pain

ISBN-13: 9784431670377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 550 str.

M. Kosaka; T. Sugahara; Klaus L. Schmidt

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multitude of different forms of thermotherapy in connection with aspects of thermal physiology and cell biology. The aim is to elucidate the scientific background of therapeutic actions and to promote effective new applications at the beginning of the 21st century. Significant to these purposes is cooperation between experts in the fields of thermal biology, hyper thermic oncology, rheumatology, and balneology, as represented by the editors. Emphasis has been placed on a balanced choice of contributions, in the hope that this will enable the reader to draw helpful connections between the principles and prac tice of thermotherapy. It is apparent that a wealth of published data exists concerning thermotherapy on the one hand and thermal physiology on the other. However, in the former field empirical aspects of therapeutic usefulness prevail, while in the latter, aspects of basic science are in the foreground. Accordingly, the sources where published data may be found are quite different and as a consequence many findings of potential mutual interest published in medical journals have gone unnoticed by readers of physio logical journals, and vice versa. It is hoped that this book will bridge the gap and encourage researchers' efforts to integrate the available knowledge to attain optimal coordination of clinical and theoretical aspects."

Spis treści

The Central Organization of the Thermoregulatory System.- Application of Heat and Cold: Physiological Responses and Therapeutic Implications.- Cerebral Regulation of Thirst.- 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 by Thermal 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 Other Brain Entities Related to Hibernation.- Induced Hypothermia in Cardiovascular and Brain Surgery.- Postanesthetic Shivering.- Sympathetic Adjustment of Cardiovascular Control 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 for Peripheral Vasodilation.- Concept of Selective Brain Cooling and Its 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.- Autonomic and Neuroendocrine Modulation of Cellular Immunity.- Exercise and Immunity.- Changes in Immune Activities by Heat Stress.- Autonomic and Endocrine Adjustments in Fever.- Adaptive Changes in the Sympathetic Nervous and Endocrine Systems During Fever Induced by Interleukin-1? in Conscious Rats: Potential Neural Mechanism.- Neuroanatomy of Fever: Localization of Cytokine and Prostaglandin Systems in the Brain.- Temperature Homeostasis and Redox Homeostasis.- Fever and Related Host Defense Responses.- Stress Response: Overview.- Induction of Heat-Shock Proteins and Their Biological Functions.- Fundamental Aspects of Hyperthermia on Cellular and Molecular Levels.- Learning from Bacteria: Molecular Chaperones in Ribosomes and Thermophilic Adaptation.- Molecular Chaperone and Folding: Lessons from Heat Shock Protein Research.- Modifications 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 Proteins in Ischemic 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 Hyperthermic Radiosensitization.- Recent Aspects of Elucidating the Cellular Basis of Thermochemotherapy.- Effects of Hyperthermia-Induced Changes in pH Value on Tumor Response and Thermotolerance.- Enhancement of Hyperthermic Effects Using Rapid Heating.- Molecular and Cellular Factors Determining Cell Susceptibility to Heat Shock.- Enhancement of Cytotoxic Effects of Chemotherapeutic Agents with Hyperthermia In Vitro.- 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 Hyperthermic Oncology in Japan.- Physiology and Psychology in Hyperthermic Oncology: Contribution of Clinical Oncologists in the Development of Heating of Deep-Seated Tumors.- Clinical Usefulness of Long-Term Thermohydrotherapy (Balneotherapy).- Combined Radon and Heat Exposure for Treatment 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.