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20 Years of Research on Cytokine-Induced Sickness Behavior

natasa778

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very good review paper


The finding that sickness behavior occurs in all mammals and birds indicates that communication between the immune system and brain has been evolutionarily conserved and forms an important physiological adaptive response that favors survival of the organism during infections....