What’s the Opposite of Inflammation
I want to commemorate the writing of my 100th article on Blogspot by discussing a new insight into inflammation. I have been searching the last several years for an anti-inflammatory system to balance inflammation. Now I realize that there is no opposite to inflammation. There is only completion of inflammation to return to the original state. Inflammation is a process that includes resolution or recovery from the defensive, destructive state of immunological activity. Inflammation is the martialling of resources for battle by offloading lymphocytes from the blood stream, engaging the enemy b y triggering the release of toxic secretory vesicles from leukocytes, and cleaning up the carnage by macrophages engulfing cellular fragments. Each step in the inflammatory process induces the next step until there is a return to the origin. Inflammation is not balanced by anti-inflammatory processes. Inflammation is triggered by molecules characteristic of viruses, bacteria or fungi bindin...