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Cytokines in Chronic Inflammation

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With the tremendous increase in scientific knowledge about cytokines and their immune functions, it has also become clear that cytokines have systemic and local effects that are only partly related to their coordinating functions in the immune system. Thus, proinflammatory cytokines are the major endogenous mediators of anorexia and cachexia during chronic diseases. They have substantial hypermetabolic effects, which are at the core of the organism’s fever reaction, and, last but not least, they are implicated in the metabolic disturbances and several other comorbidities of obesity, in particular by contributing to insulin resistance. This chapter summarises current knowledge of these effects: it describes studies including different levels of scientific analysis, from the molecular through cellular to the systemic and behavioural levels, which reveal interesting features of the role of cytokines in these phenomena.

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  1. Department of Medical Oncology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Giovanni Mantovani

  2. Department of Clinical Cardiology, Imperial College, NHLI, London, UK

    Stefan D. Anker

  3. Department of Cardiology Charité, Applied Cachexia Research, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan D. Anker

  4. Department of Behavioral Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

    Akio Inui

  5. GRECC, VA Medical Center and Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA

    John E. Morley

  6. Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Filippo Rossi Fanelli

  7. Department of Infectious Diseases, IRCCS S.Matteo Polyclinic, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Daniele Scevola

  8. Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Center for Lymphoma and Myeloma, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Michael W. Schuster

  9. Department of Medicine-Geriatrics, University of New York at Stony Brook VAMC, Northport, NY, USA

    Shing-Shing Yeh

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Langhans, W. (2006). Cytokines in Chronic Inflammation. In: Mantovani, G., et al. Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0552-5_22

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