Sociality and sickness: Have cytokines evolved to serve social functions beyond times of pathogen exposure?

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-20

  Hennessy, Michael B ^a   Deak, Terrence ^b   Schiml, Patricia A ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; Cytokines; Maternal effect; Neuroimmune; Sickness behavior; Social buffering; Social cue; Social stress

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CUE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; CYTOKINES; MATERNAL EFFECT; NEUROIMMUNE; SICKNESS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BUFFERING; SOCIAL CUE; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896707718     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.10.021     Document Type: Review

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