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. 2016 Sep 8;166(6):1368-1370.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.034.

Disease Tolerance Trick or Treat: Give Your Brain Something Good to Eat

Janelle S Ayres  1
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Disease Tolerance Trick or Treat: Give Your Brain Something Good to Eat

Janelle S Ayres. Cell. .
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The reprioritization of feeding motivations during disease is proposed to optimize host defense strategies against infection. Now, Wang et al. identify that sickness-induced anorexia differentially shapes the metabolic requirements of cellular stress adaptations, leading to opposite impact on disease tolerance upon bacterial versus viral infections.

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