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Inflammatory may refer to: Inflammation , a biological response to harmful stimuli The word inflammatory is also used to refer literally to fire and flammability , and figuratively in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions.
An inflammatory mediator is a messenger that acts on blood vessels and/or cells to promote an inflammatory response. [48] Inflammatory mediators that contribute to neoplasia include prostaglandins , inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β , TNF-α , IL-6 and IL-15 and chemokines such as IL-8 and GRO-alpha .
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
The catalog generally comprises a set of files in a specific localization format and a standard library to handle said format. One software library and format that aids this is gettext. Thus to get an application to support multiple languages one would design the application to select the relevant language resource file at runtime.
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. He is known best for his Dictionary of Literary Terms (published in several editions), described by the Times Educational Supplement as ‘scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining…an indispensable work of reference.’
An inflammatory cytokine or proinflammatory cytokine is a type of signaling molecule (a cytokine) that is secreted from immune cells like helper T cells (T h) and macrophages, and certain other cell types that promote inflammation.
The xanthogranulomatous process (XP), is a form of acute and chronic inflammation characterized by an exuberant clustering of foamy macrophages among other inflammatory cells. Localization in the kidney and renal pelvis has been the most frequent and better known occurrence followed by that in the gallbladder but many others have been ...
Pneumonitis describes general inflammation of lung tissue. [1] [2] Possible causative agents include radiation therapy of the chest, [3] exposure to medications used during chemo-therapy, the inhalation of debris (e.g., animal dander), aspiration, herbicides or fluorocarbons and some systemic diseases.