AIDS, Drugs of Abuse, and the Neuroimmune Axis

1. AIDS, Drugs of Abuse and the Neuroimmune Axis: Introduction and Perspectives.- 2. The Effect of Novel Opioids on Natural Killer Activity and Tumor Surveillance in Vivo.- 3. Kappa Opioid Receptors on Immune Cells as Studied by Fluorescent Ligands.- 4. Presence of Opiate Alkaloid-Selective µ3 Receptors in Cultured Astrocytes and in Brain and Retina.- 5. Opiates, Glia, and Neurotoxicity.- 6. Morphine Affects the Brain-Immune Axis by Modulating an Interleukin-1 Beta Dependent Pathway.- 7. Opioid Dependency and the Progression of Simian AIDS: Mortality and Behavioral Observations.- 8. Endogenous Opioids and HIV Infection.- 9. Methionine Enkephalin Used in Combination with Azidothymidine in Murine Retrovirus Infection.- 10. On the Evolution of Opioid Mechanisms and Immune Defenses.- 11. Purification and Characterization of a Secreted T-Cell ?-Endorphin Endopeptidase.- 12. Effects of Centrally Administered Opioid Agonists on Macrophage Nitric Oxide Production and Splenic Lymphocyte Proliferation.- 13. Prenatal Morphine Exposure Interacts with Adult Stress to Affect Type and Number of Blood Leucocytes.- 14. Endogenous Cannabinoid Ligands.- 15. Cannabinoids and Immunity to Legionella pneumophila Infection.- 16. Cannabinoids and Interleukin-6 Enhance the Response to NMDA in Developing CNS Neurons.- 17. Cannabinoid Receptor Expression in Immune Cells.- 18. Cannabinoids and Immunity to Viruses.- 19. Alteration of Macrophage Functions by Cocaine.- 20. Divergent Effects of Cocaine on Cytokine Production by Lymphocytes and Monocyte/Macrophages: HIV-1 Enhancement by Cocaine within the Blood-Brain Barrier.- 21. Effects on Mouse Thymocyte Biology: A Mini-Overview with Some New Evidence.- 22. Immunopathogenesis of HIV Infection: Role of Alcohol and HIV Peptides.- 23. HIV-1Neuropathogenesis and Abused Drugs: Current Views, Problems, and Solutions.- 24. Inhaled Isobutyl Nitrite Produced Lung Inflammation with Increased Macrophage TNF-? and Nitric Oxide Production.- 25. Cytokine Action in the Nervous System at Pathophysiological versus Pharmacological Concentrations.- 26. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Effects of CNS Expression of Cytokines in Transgenic Mice.- 27. IL1 Beta Impairs Relational but not Procedural Rodent Learning in a Water Maze Task.- 28. TNF?: A Neuromodulator in the Central Nervous System.- 29. Drugs of Abuse as Possible Co-Factors in AIDS Progression: Summary of Panel Discussion.