title: DAF-tly depart stinky situations with elegans.
abstract: During acute infection our behavior tends to change. Despite how common sickness behavior is, its molecular basis is not well understood. In a study published in Cell, Kim and colleagues (Meisel et al., 2014) implicate bacterial secondary metabolites as triggers of neural TGF-? signaling, which results in behavioral change during infection.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Comparative Immunology, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: jirazoqui@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Javier E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Irazoqui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000378:metabolism*