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Inflammation: from safeguard mechanism to silent killer
Inflammation is one of the most important safeguarding mechanisms of our body, to fight and resolve the thousands of environmental attacks we receive every day. If all works well, inflammation ends quickly, when the cause is removed; but if it persists for months or years, usually in a mild form, inflammation can turn into a quiet enemy that threatens our well-being daily. Without giving any signs of its unceasing action, it becomes a silent killer. As a result, understanding and controlling inflammation has become a central goal of modern clinical investigation. The internal research branch of the US National Institutes of Health recently designated inflammation a priority, mobilizing several hundred scientists and hundreds of ...