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Intravenous Endotoxin Challenge in Healthy Humans: An Experimental Platform to Investigate and Modulate Systemic Inflammation
Published on: May 16, 2016
Inflammation: the dynamic force of health and disease
V Vassileva1, M Piquette-Miller2
1Department of Oncology, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Abstract:
Replacing "happiness" with "inflammation" in Thomas Merton's quotation holds true for the processes that govern our immune response and health. The balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory signals regulates inflammatory responses, leading to either restoration of health or the development and progression of disease, depending on whether it creates equilibrium or dysfunction. This issue of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics highlights emerging research and concepts related to inflammation and its underlying role in chronic disease and variable drug response.
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