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During acute infection our behavior tends to change. Despite how common sickness behavior is, its molecular basis is not well understood. In a study published in Cell, Kim and colleagues (Meisel et al., 2014) implicate bacterial secondary metabolites as triggers of neural TGF-β signaling, which resu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cell host & microbe 2014-11, Vol.16 (5), p.553-555
1. Verfasser: Irazoqui, Javier E.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:During acute infection our behavior tends to change. Despite how common sickness behavior is, its molecular basis is not well understood. In a study published in Cell, Kim and colleagues (Meisel et al., 2014) implicate bacterial secondary metabolites as triggers of neural TGF-β signaling, which results in behavioral change during infection.
ISSN:1931-3128
1934-6069
DOI:10.1016/j.chom.2014.10.017