Table of Contents

Roles of Innate Immunity and Inflammation in the Aging Brain. Immune Modulation of Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Alzheimer’s Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Environment and the Role of Inflammation in Chronic Pulmonary Diseases: The Silent Mediator. Role of Inflammation and Lifestyle in Chronic Asthma. Inflammation in Rheumatic and Arthritic Diseases: Role of Dietary Phytochemicals. The Role of Inflammation in Skin Disease: Inflammation, Lifestyle, and Chronic Diseases—The Silent Link. Inflammation and Heart Diseases. Wound Inflammation: From Initiation to Resolution. Role of Inflammation in Infectious Disease. Implications of Inflammation for Neuropsychiatric Disease: Contributions and Consequences. Role of Inflammation in Gastrointestinal Diseases. Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Inflammation: An Issue of Modern Lifestyle. Role of Inflammation in Cancer Development. Chronic Diseases Caused by Chronic Inflammation Require Chronic Treatment: The Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle.

About the Author

Dr. Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal is the Ransom Home, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Division of Cancer Medicine's Department of Experimental Therapeutics, and chief of the Cytokine Research Laboratory, in Houston, Texas. He earned a PhD in biochemistry at the University of California in Berkeley, then underwent postdoctoral training at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He worked for ten years at Genentech, Inc., where he isolated and determined the structure of TNF-I and TNF-I , before returning to a university-based academic position. Dr. Sunil Krishnan is director of Gastrointestinal Translational Research and associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He received his MD degree at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, and then completed an internal medicine residency at Penn State Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, and a radiation oncology residency at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, before joining the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Sushovan Guha is the site director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program and assistant professor of gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He earned his MD degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India, and graduated with an MA/MPhil in microbiology and immunology from Columbia University, New York. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Guha then joined the prestigious Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, where he also received his PhD from the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) under the astute tutelage of Professor Enrique Rozengurt.