Activated glia exert crucial neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects ... to abnormal pain signalling (as the Aβ fibres begin to signal pain in response to non-noxious stimuli (see below)).

Certain proteins, called biomarkers, increase in the blood during inflammation. These proteins signal that something is wrong ...

Researchers at City of Hope have found that cell mutations are necessary but not always sufficient for tumors to form.

They went one step further to show that even a single exposure as a fetus to a low dose of the first drug is sufficient to trigger the same mutation types that can be sufficient for tumor formation ...

"Inflammation is not always a bad thing; our bodies use inflammation as a signal for healing," says Mari Ricker, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona.