Sentence examples for sickness behaviours from inspiring English sources

Introduction: Experimental animal studies provided evidence for a synergistic effect of immunological and psychological stressors on subsequent sickness behaviours.

We also review relevant topics that were not covered fully in this theme issue, including self-medication and sickness behaviours, society-level defences against infectious disease, sexual selection, evolutionary medicine, implications for conservation biology and selective pressures on parasite traits.

We used burrowing as a measure of hippocampus dependent sickness behaviours (Deacon et al., 2002).

These observations suggest that dexamethasone protects against classic sickness behaviours, but not behaviours associated with exploration and anxiety.

In terms of their function, these sickness behaviours help infected individuals cope with their illness by changing their perceptions of their state and their reactions to it.

In rodents, peripheral injection with IL-1β or bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (a potent stimulator of cytokine release) reliably induces sickness behaviours including social withdrawal, immobility and anorexia (Dantzer et al., 2007).

So if people with depression show classic sickness behaviour and sick people feel a lot like people with depression – might there be a common cause that accounts for both?

Injected i.p. in mice, BCG has been found to elicit a systemic immune response characterized by an increase in circulating cytokines (Sander et al., 1995; Leal et al., 2001) and behavioural symptoms of sickness behaviour (Moreau et al., 2008).

Sickness behaviour is a set of behavioural changes that develop during infection, eventually leading to decrease in mobility and depressed behaviour.

Unlike an Australian campaign [ 21], but in line with campaigns in Scotland and Canada [ 22, 23], the Norwegian campaign did not succeed in changing sickness behaviour in terms of sick leave, surgery or the use of imaging scans in patients with LBP.

However, sick vertebrates often show a decreased appetite, part of the well-studied sickness behaviour [ 7].