Endocrine Abstracts

Inflammation is a primordial response to infection and injury that seeks to neutralise and eliminate foreign organisms and/or material. Thus, inflammation is no trivial event. Life depends upon it. In general, the innate inflammatory response initiates within minutes and resolves within hours. Chronic inflammation, on the other hand, persists for weeks, months or even years and, unlike the acute response, is the side of host immunity we need to avoid. Notwithstanding, disperse...