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What is Inflammation

Chapter 32
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Inflammation is a basic way in which the body reacts to infection, irritation, or other injury, the key feature being redness, warmth, swelling, and pain.
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Combining Technology with Tradition to Effect Superior Pain Management Strategies
Choong Khean Foo (RMIT University, Australia)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch032
Abstract
Everybody knows what pain is but no one really knows how to switch it off especially when it becomes persistent and annoying. Have we lost sight of the real pathophysiology that underlies the phenomenon of pain? Are we concentrating on the end point rather than the cause of the malady? Drugs and physical therapies don’t have all the answers to pain management. Is there another way? Maybe we should take a broader look at why the pain started in the first place and then we can work out the solution to the health challenge!
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Encapsulation of Flavonoids in Nanocarriers: A Novel Strategy to Enhance Their Bioefficacy and Oral Bioavailability
Inflammation is part of the process characterized by swelling, pain and redness by which the immune system defends the body from harmful agents, such as bacteria and viruses.
Published in Chapter: Encapsulation of Flavonoids in Nanocarriers: A Novel Strategy to Enhance Their Bioefficacy and Oral Bioavailability; From: Innovative Approaches for Nanobiotechnology in Healthcare Systems
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Isothiocyanates as Drug Candidates in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Inflammation is a cellular (cellular), humoral (fluid) and vascular (vascular) serial vital response that living tissue gives to any living or non-living foreign factor or internal/external tissue damage. Although inflammation is normally a pathological condition, the inflammatory reaction is a physiological response of the body.
Published in Chapter: Isothiocyanates as Drug Candidates in Cancer Prevention and Treatment; From: Multidisciplinary Applications of Natural Science for Drug Discovery and Integrative Medicine
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Effecting Superior Pain Management Strategies by Combining Technology with Tradition
A basic way in which the body reacts to infection, irritation or other injury, the key feature being redness, warmth, swelling and pain.
Published in Chapter: Effecting Superior Pain Management Strategies by Combining Technology with Tradition; From: Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management
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