Fever and the thermal regulation of immunity: The immune system feels the heat

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 335-349

  Evans, Sharon S ^a   Repasky, Elizabeth A ^a   Fisher, Daniel T ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; CYTOKINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL MIGRATION; DENDRITIC CELL; EFFECTOR CELL; FEVER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE STRESS; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CYTOKINES; FEVER; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION; INTERLEUKIN-6; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84929944191     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3843     Document Type: Review

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