Endotoxin-induced experimental systemic inflammation in humans: A model to disentangle immune-to-brain communication

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Schedlowski, Manfred ^a   Engler, Harald ^a   Grigoleit, Jan Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Experimental inflammation; FMRI; Human endotoxemia; Immune to brain communication; Lipopolysaccharide (LPS); Sickness behavior

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TYPHOID VACCINE; CYTOKINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANHEDONIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOTOXEMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALAISE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COGNITION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

CYTOKINES; ENDOTOXEMIA; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION;

EID: 84888859097     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.09.015     Document Type: Review

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