RAZ YIRMIYA

9. The relationships Among Brain, Behavior, Psychoactive Drugs, Immunity and Cancer

Yirmiya R., The role of vasopressin in Physiology and Behavior: Studies in vasopressin-deficient rats (Brattleboro Strain). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. (Advisor: Professor John C. Liebeskind, UCLA, USA).

Shavit, Y., Martin, F. C., Yirmiya, R., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Terman, G. W., Weiner, H., Gale, R. P., and Liebeskind, J. C., Effects of a single administration of morphine or footshock stress on natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 1: 318-328, 1987. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Shavit, Y., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Martin, F. C., Weiner, H., and Liebeskind, J. C., Natural Killer cell activity in vasopressin-deficient rats (Brattleboro strain). Brain Research, 479: 16-22, 1989. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., and Taylor, A. N., Genetic differences in opiate receptor concentration and sensitivity to ethanol's effects, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 33: 793-796, 1989. [Abstract]

Ben-Eliyahu, S., Yirmiya, R., Shavit, Y., and Liebeskind, J. C., Stress-induced suppression of natural killer cell cytotoxicity in the rat: A naltrexone-insensitive paradigm. Behavioral Neuroscience, 104: 235-238, 1990. [Abstract]

Shavit, Y., Yirmiya, R., and Beilin, B., Stress neuropeptides, immunity and neoplasia, In: The Neuroendocrine Immune Network, edited by Z. Freier, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1990, pp. 163-175.

Ben-Eliyahu, S., Yirmiya, R., Taylor, A. N., Gale, R. P., and Liebeskind, J. C., Stress increases metastatic spread of a mammary tumor in rats: Evidence for mediation by the immune system. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 5: 193-205, 1991. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Shavit, Y., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Gale, R. P., Liebeskind, J. C., Taylor, A. N., and Weiner, H., Modulation of immunity and neoplasia by neuropeptides released by stressors, In: Stress, Neuropeptides, and Systemic Disease, edited by P. G. Kaufmann, J. A. McCubbin and C. B. Nemeroff, Academic Press, 1991, pp. 261-286.

Page, G. G., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Yirmiya, R., and Liebeskind, J. C., Morphine attenuates surgery-induced enhancement of metastatic colonization in rats. Pain, 54: 21-28, 1993. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R., Ben-Eliyahu, S., and Taylor, A. N., Alcohol and Cancer: Biochemical and Immunobiological Mechanisms, In: Alcohol, Immunity and Cancer, edited by R. Yirmiya and A. N. Taylor, CRC Press Inc., 1993, pp. 143-156.

Yirmiya, R., Pilati, M. L., Chiappelli, F., and Taylor, A. N., Fetal alcohol exposure attenuates lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced fever in rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 17: 906-910, 1993. [Abstract]

Yirmiya, R. and Taylor, A. N. (Eds.), Alcohol, Immunity and Cancer. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1993.

Ben-Eliyahu, S., Page, G. G., Yirmiya, R., and Taylor, A. N., Acute alcohol intoxication suppresses natural killer cell activity in vivo and promotes tumor metastasis. Nature Medicine, 2: 457-460, 1996. [Abstract]

Ben-Eliyahu, S., Page, G. G., Yirmiya, R., and Shakhar, G., Evidence that stress and surgical interventions promote tumor development by suppressing natural killer cell activity. International Journal of Cancer, 80: 880-888, 1999. [Abstract]

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