Melatonin Acts at the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus to Attenuate Behavioral Symptoms of Infection

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 689-697

  Freeman, David A ^a   Kampf Lassin, August ^b   Galang, Jerome ^b   Wen, Jarvi C ^b   Prendergast, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

inflammation; neural immune interactions; photoperiod; seasonality; sickness behavior

Indexed keywords

5 METHOXYTRYPTAMINE; MELATONIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CACHEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INFECTION; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CRICETINAE; EATING; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MELATONIN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PINEAL GLAND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TESTIS;

EID: 34548833938     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.4.689     Document Type: Article

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