Cytokine-induced sickness behaviour: mec
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Jan Pieter Konsman; Patricia Parnet; Robert Dantzer
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Sickness behaviour represents the expression of the adaptive reorganization of the priorities of the host during an infectious episode. This process is triggered by pro-inflammatory cytokines produced by peripheral phagocytic cells in contact with invading micro-organisms. The peripheral immune mess