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External Websites
- LiveScience - Inflammation: Causes, Symptoms & Anti-Inflammatory Diet
- Verywell Health - What Is Inflammation?
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - What is an inflammation?
- Frontiers - Inflammation–Nature's Way to Efficiently Respond to All Types of Challenges: Implications for Understanding and Managing “the Epidemic” of Chronic Diseases
- Cleveland Clinic - Inflammation
- WebMD - What is Inflammation?
- National Center of Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Prostaglandins and Inflammation
- Healthline - Inflammation: What You Need to Know
- Key People:
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
- Related Topics:
- sepsis rheumatoid arthritis Bright disease chronic inflammation acute inflammation
Top Questions
What is inflammation?
What are the signs of inflammation?
Is inflammation good or bad?
inflammation, a response triggered by damage to living tissues. The inflammatory response is a defense mechanism that evolved in higher organisms to protect them from infection and injury. Its purpose is to localize and eliminate the injurious agent and to remove damaged tissue components so that the body can begin to heal. The response consists of changes in blood flow, an increase in permeability of blood vessels, and the migration of fluid, proteins, and white blood cells (leukocytes) from the circulation to the site of tissue damage. An inflammatory response that lasts only a few days is called acute inflammation, ...(100 of 2200 words)