"Every fever, bump, rash, or bruise is the result of inflammation," he says.
Aging takes place on the cellular level as a result of inflammation and oxidative stress.
Recently, atherosclerosis has been considered to be the result of inflammation.
"Amphetamine-based drugs cause blood pressure abnormalities and using cocaine can cause your blood vessels to block off as a result of inflammation," he says.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) formation is a result of inflammation and extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling mediated by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs).
The in vivo failure of implantable glucose sensors is thought to be largely the result of inflammation and fibrosis-induced vessel regression at sites of sensor implantation.
As a result of inflammation, the iris sticks to the lens or the cornea, blocking the normal flow of fluid in the eye.
As a result of inflammation, the cornea rapidly becomes hazy, and blood vessels grow in from the surrounding tissues to form a pink patch.
Twenty years of study and published research have persuaded Dr. Perricone that wrinkles are not the inevitable outcome of aging but a reversible result of inflammation -- not the familiar red and swollen inflammation, but a more insidious kind caused by free radicals, renegade atoms that wreak havoc on the body's cells.
The pneumococcus is the most common cause of lobar pneumonia, the disease in which one or more lobes, or segments, of the lung become solid and airless as a result of inflammation.
Pancreatic stellate cells (PSC) are myofibroblast-like cells located in exocrine areas of the pancreas, which as a result of inflammation produced by PDAC migrate and accumulate in the tumor mass, secreting extracellular matrix components and producing the dense PDAC stroma.
