Inflammation
Inflammation
Chronic Inflammation: Reduce It to Protect Your HealthChronic Inflammation: Reduce It to Protect Your Health Inflammation is linked to diabetes, depression, heart disease, and cancer. Here's what you can do about it Cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's-these... In this article: Inflammation, Anti-inflammatory, Cancer, Aspirin, Cholesterol, Hormone, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Statin |
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Centre Daily Times | November 08, 2009
Total Nutraceutical Solutions Research Data Reveals Ability to Control Oxidative Stress
...cell death. Research indicates a strong link between oxidative stress, release of ROS and inflammation and disease, examples being diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's disease, cancer and even early aging. Oxidative...
In this article: Vitamin D2, Oxygen, Paraquat, Securities and Exchange Commission, Herbicide, Cancer, and Arthritis
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Medical News Today | 6 days ago
Nanoparticles Used In Common Household Items Caused Genetic Damage In Mice
...Comprehensive Cancer Center. The TiO2 nanoparticles induced single- and double-strand DNA breaks and also caused chromosomal damage as well as inflammation, all of which increase the risk for cancer. The UCLA study is the first to show...
In this article: Cancer, UCLA, Medical advice, Cancer Research, Titanium, and Toxin
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Greenwich Time | November 11, 2009
Giants linebacker calls on Sacred Heart girls to become organ donors
The group was formed in memory of the late Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton, who died of cancer on Nov. 1, 1999, while awaiting a liver transplant to treat a rare disease that causes inflammation and hardening of the bile duct.
In this article: Walter Payton, National Football League, God, Cancer, Rare disease, United Network, and Chicago Bears
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L.A. Times - Booster Shots | 5 days ago
To fight inflammation with food
...be linked to chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease, and even the very fact of aging. Some foods, it turns out, promote inflammation. Others damp it down. Shara Yurkiewicz, our 2009 summer intern, wrote a fairly extensive Health...
In this article: Carbohydrate, Sugar, Saturated fat, Magnesium, University of Massachusetts, Curcumin, Cancer, University of South Carolina, and Los Angeles Times
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MedicineNet | November 15, 2009
Gene Linked to Breast Cancer Might Boost Heart Health
...a new study suggests. The study, performed in mice, also found that when this gene, called BRCA1, is turned off, it promotes an inflammation that can lead to atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Although there has been no...
In this article: Brca1, Breast cancer, Cancer, School of Public Health, Surgery, University of Toronto, and University of Minnesota
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U.S. News & World Report | November 02, 2009
Building a Diet That Lowers Inflammation
...to avoid Inflammation, normally part of a healthy immune response, is increasingly thought to play a leading role in encouraging a number of major killers, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer's. Dangerous...
In this article: Cancer, Peanut butter, Cocoa, Potato, Arachidonic acid, Alzheimer's, Resveratrol, and Glycation
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Inflammation (Latin, inflamatio, to set on fire) is the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. It is a protective attempt by the organism to remove the injurious stimuli as well as initiate the healing process for the tissue. Inflammation is not a synonym for infection. Even in cases where inflammation is caused by infection, the two are not synonymous: infection is caused by an exogenous pathogen, while inflammation is the response of the organism to the pathogen.
In the absence of inflammation, wounds and infections would never heal and progressive destruction of the tissue would compromise the survival of the organism. However, an inflammation that runs unchecked can also lead to a host of diseases, such as hay fever, atherosclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is for that reason that inflammation is normally closely regulated by the body.
Inflammation can be classified as either acute or chronic. Acute inflammation is the initial response of the body to harmful stimuli and is achieved by the increased movement of plasma and leukocytes from the blood into the injured tissues. A cascade of biochemical events propagates and matures the inflammatory response, involving the local vascular system, the immune system, and various cells within the injured tissue. Prolonged inflammation, known as chronic inflammation, leads to a progressive shift in the type of cells which are present at the site of inflammation and is characterised by simultaneous destruction and healing of the tissue from the inflammatory process.
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