The phrase "a component of sickness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements or factors that contribute to illness or disease.
Example: "Stress is often considered a component of sickness that can exacerbate existing health issues."
Alternatives: "an aspect of illness" or "a factor of disease".
FK565, however, but not MDP, significantly increased circulating corticosterone, which indicates that the NOD1 agonist stimulated the HPA axis, a component of the sickness response (Lenczowski et al., 1997).
Although hyperalgesia is a presumed component of sickness behavior, little experimental data exist thus far assessing effects of systemic immune activation on pain in humans.
We look only at sickness absence, and therefore assume that most measured absence includes a component of ill health [ 22, 23].
Arsenic is also a component of melarsoprol, a medicinal drug used in the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.
Our findings provide a mechanistic neurobiological account for heterogeneous mood-related components of sickness behavior and suggest a common pathophysiological basis for MDD and sickness-associated mood change and depression.
This inflammatory model has been shown previously to stimulate a low-grade peripheral inflammatory response with associated cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components of sickness (24,25).
Our results extend these observations by implicating the substantia nigra in psychomotor components of sickness behavior mediated by inflammatory cytokines.
We predicted that the central communication of peripheral inflammation is associated with pro-inflammatory cytokine release and achieved through direct modulation of interoceptive pathways engendering core cognitive and motivational components of sickness behavior, including subjective fatigue and lethargy.
