Present day hypotheses propose that abnormal immune responses in the gut mucosa cause continual intestinal inflammation, specifically alterations in the T cell response either to the gut flora or to normal components of the gut lumen [ 1, 2].
Chronic smoking-related inflammation and continual repairs and remodeling destroy the lung parenchyma and the alveolar tissues, leading to emphysema and obstruction of small airways.
8 Therefore any prosthetic device must be able to withstand the unstable ocular surface microenvironment with its continual changing flora and chronic inflammation in these adverse conditions.
Contrarily, chronic inflammation is featured by continual activation of the adaptive immune system that exacerbates the inflammatory response.
Although somewhat contra-intuitive it is frequently observed that, acute and chronic inflammation coexist over long periods, implying continual reinitiation.
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Of course, it is difficult to distinguish whether the continual open wound with exposure to microbes is causal of the chronic inflammation, or vice versa, or both.
In chronic inflammation, however, the inflammatory process persists over prolonged periods of time and the continual cell death/regeneration accompanying the process is recognized to enhance risk of cancer, including HCC (reviewed in [ 8]).
As such, endotoxin, which is considered a potential mediator of chronic low-grade inflammation, is considerably higher in the state of type 2 diabetes, with implications for a continual inflammatory state, as other articles have observed (15, 16, 28, 29).
