IMR Press / FBL / Volume 26 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.2741/4900

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Environmental parasitology and its impact on the host nueroimmunoendocrine network
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1 Departamento de Inmunologia, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, AP 70228, Ciudad de Mexico, 04510, Mexico
2 Departamento de Farmacologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, 04510, Mexico
3 Departamento de Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, 04510, Mexico
Send correspondence to: Jorge Morales Montor, Departamento de Inmunologia, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, AP 70228, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. CP: 04510, Tel: 52555-56223158, Fax: 525556223369, E-mail: jmontor66@biomedicas.unam.mx
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2021, 26(3), 431–443; https://doi.org/10.2741/4900
Published: 1 October 2020
Abstract

The communication between neuroendocrine and immune system maintains a bidirectional complex network. Both systems jointly act during a parasite infection to maintain homeostasis and to eliminate such pathogens. Parasites interfere with the synthesis, secretion, metabolism, action, and elimination of endogenous hormones, as well as with the immune system in the host. Here, we aim to address as how parasite colonization disrupts the normal homeostasis of endocrine organs of the host, likely due to the exacerbated immune response, or by the impact of the parasite directly affecting endocrine tissues.

Keywords
Parasites
Neuroimmunoendocrine host-parasite network
Neuroendocrine effect
Helminths
Protozoan
Biological pollutants
Endocrine disruptors compounds
Behaviors
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