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Cytokine-cytokine interactions and the brain.
- Source :
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Brain research bulletin [Brain Res Bull] 2000 Jan 01; Vol. 51 (1), pp. 3-9. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Cytokine-cytokine interactions play a role in health and are crucial during immunological and inflammatory responses in disease. Cytokine interactions can result in additive, antagonist, or synergistic activities in maintaining physiological functions such as feeding, body temperature, and sleep, as well as in anorectic, pyrogenic, and somnogenic neurological manifestations of acute and chronic disease. These interactions involve signaling homology, convergence of signaling pathways, and/or positive or negative feedbacks within and among cytokine systems. The interplay of cytokines with neurotransmitters, peptides/neuropeptides, and hormones also influence cytokine action in the brain. Interactive chemical cascades involving cytokines are consistent with the homeostatic physiological mechanisms and with the multi-humoral, pleiotropic, and redundant processes that occur during acute and chronic disease.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Disease
Homeostasis
Humans
Brain physiology
Cytokines physiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0361-9230
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Brain research bulletin
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10654575
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0361-9230(99)00203-8