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Production of pro-inflammatory cytokines correlates with the symptoms of acute sickness behaviour in humans

DOI

194

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0

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2004

Year

Uté Vollmer‐Conna, Chrysa Fazou, Barbara Cameron, Hongshou Li, Catherine M. Brennan, Lauretta Luck, Tracey A Davenport, Denis Wakefield, Ian B. Hickie, Andrew R. Lloyd
Psychological Medicine

Abstract

IL-1beta and IL-6 produced as part of the host response represent sensitive markers of sickness behaviour in humans with acute infection. Further work is needed to systematically characterize the spectrum and natural history of sickness behaviour in humans and to elucidate its biological basis.