Neural circuitry engaged by prostaglandins during the sickness syndrome

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1088-1095

  Saper, Clifford B ^a   Romanovsky, Andrej A ^b   Scammell, Thomas E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1 INHIBITOR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR 1; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN H2; PROTEIN C FOS; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANOREXIA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SICKNESS SYNDROME; SOMNOLENCE; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEVER; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PROSTAGLANDINS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84864484031     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3159     Document Type: Review

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