Exploratory Behavioral and Neural Effects of Inflammation-Induced Sickness Behavior

Sickness behavior entails behavioral changes such as anxiety or fatigue due to increased circulatory proinflammatory cytokine (IL-6) levels. By crossing the blood-brain barrier, IL-6 induces widespread but poorly understood neurological changes that potentially shift the body's energetic pri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Long, Emily Nicole
Other Authors: O'Connor, Mary-Frances
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625042
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/625042