Molecular Mechanisms of Fever - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

This is the proceedings of a New York Academy of Sciences conference, November 2-4, 1997. The text covers a multi-disciplinary discussion of the biological basis of fever and related host responses from the molecular to the clinical level. It explores the development of drugs that modulate fever without inducing unpleasant or harmful side effects. It also explains why basic paradigms and techniques used to understand the role of cytokine and hormone regulation of body temperature are relevant to solving other physiological processes such as the regulation of sleep and food intake and the modulation of pain.