Created on Dec. 24, 2012, 10:08 p.m. by Hevok & updated by Hevok on May 2, 2013, 4:57 p.m.
Inflammation is a response of the vascular tissues against diverse stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells or irritants. It is accompanied by symptoms like pain
, redness
, swelling
and loss of function
. The older we get, the more our systemic inflammatory apparatus tends to get stuck in overdrive.
17 of immune-signaling chemicals in mouse blood raise with age. Of those 6 also increase in younger members of young/old heterochronic parabiont mouse pairs, compared with levels in mice whose circulatory systems have not been exposed to old blood [21886162; http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2011fall/article9.html].
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