21. Swelling, mild fever and soreness are all signs that an inflammatory response has been set off. 22. That injury can, in turn, trigger a normal inflammatory response that produces scarring. 23. The cytokines, which cause a useful inflammatory response in small doses, are lethal en masse. 24. The stressed animals show an inflammatory response that is three times larger than that seen in the unstressed animals. 25. The substances were chemokines, chemicals used by the immune system as part of an inflammatory response. 26. These medications, which keep down swelling in the nose by damping down the inflammatory response, usually take a number of days to begin working. |