Sleep and inflammation: partners in sickness and in health

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2019, Pages 702-715

  Irwin, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGING; COGNITIVE AGING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYTOKINES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 85068666237     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41577-019-0190-z     Document Type: Review

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