The Innate Immune Response to Noninfectious Stressors: Human and Animal Models

This book describes the rationale behind the innate immune response to non-infectious stressors and relevant human and animal models, covering the crucial link between stress response and energy metabolism and prompting a reappraisal of some crucial issues in this fascinating, somehow elusive field of investigation

Professor Massimo Amadori is a Senior Scientist at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna (IZSLER), via A. Bianchi 9, 25124 Brescia, Italy.

Professor Amadori has developed tests of innate immunity in cattle for investigating animal health and welfare, and started and managed the Italian site of the European FMD vaccine Bank. He has been the official responsible for the Italian National Reference Centre for Animal Welfare, and has written 68 articles and chapters in the Journal of Interferon and Cytokine research, amongst others. He has an H index of 62.

Previous books published with the editor’s contribution: 1) "Acute Phase Proteins as Early Non-Specific Biomarkers of Human and Veterinary Diseases," InTech, Open Access Publisher. 2) “Diagnostic Bacteriology Protocols, 2nd Edition," Humana Press (Methods in Molecular Biology 345). 3) “New Research on Innate Immunity,” Nova Science Publishers.