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BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 3-9Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00203-8
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nervous system; growth factor; anorexia; fever; sleep; interleukin; tumor necrosis factor; neuropeptide; neurotransmitter; neuroimmunology
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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. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc.
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