Obesity impacts fever and sickness behavior during acute systemic inflammation

Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 117-130

  Rummel, Christoph ^a   Bredehöft, Janne ^a   Damm, Jelena ^a   Schweighöfer, Hanna ^a   Peek, Verena ^a   Harden, Lois M ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFLAMMATION; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFLAMMATION; OBESITY;

EID: 84957871734     PISSN: 15489213     EISSN: 15489221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00049.2015     Document Type: Review

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