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  2. Tumor necrosis factor - Wikipedia

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    TNF then triggers an inflammatory response, damaging normal tissue. TNF blockers, which prevent TNF from binding to its receptors, are often used to treat these diseases. [6] TNF induces inflammation both by activating inflammatory pathways, as well as by triggering cell death.

  3. Could Inflammation Raise Your Colon Cancer Risk? Here’s What ...

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    A new study in Gut found that colon cancer tumors have an imbalance of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory lipids, which suggests that chronic inflammation could raise the risk of colorectal cancer ...

  4. Inflammation - Wikipedia

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    Inflammation is a generic response, and therefore is considered a mechanism of innate immunity, whereas adaptive immunity is specific to each pathogen. [2] Inflammation is a protective response involving immune cells, blood vessels, and molecular mediators. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the initial cause of cell injury, clear out ...

  5. Inflammatory cytokine - Wikipedia

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    Inflammatory cytokines play a role in initiating the inflammatory response and to regulate the host defence against pathogens mediating the innate immune response. [4] Some inflammatory cytokines have additional roles such as acting as growth factors. [5] Pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α also trigger pathological pain ...

  6. Systemic inflammation - Wikipedia

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    Chronic systemic inflammation (SI) is the result of release of pro-inflammatory cytokines from immune-related cells and the chronic activation of the innate immune system.It can contribute to the development or progression of certain conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune and neurodegenerative ...

  7. Cytokine release syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In immunology, cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that can be triggered by a variety of factors such as infections and certain drugs. [3] It refers to cytokine storm syndromes (CSS) [ 4 ] and occurs when large numbers of white blood cells are activated and release inflammatory cytokines ...

  8. Necrosis - Wikipedia

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    This initiates an inflammatory response in the surrounding tissue, which attracts leukocytes and nearby phagocytes which eliminate the dead cells by phagocytosis. However, microbial damaging substances released by leukocytes would create collateral damage to surrounding tissues. [5] This excess collateral damage inhibits the healing process.

  9. cGAS–STING cytosolic DNA sensing pathway - Wikipedia

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    The cGAS–STING pathway is a component of the innate immune system that functions to detect the presence of cytosolic DNA and, in response, trigger expression of inflammatory genes that can lead to senescence [1] or to the activation of defense mechanisms. DNA is normally found in the nucleus of the cell.