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

"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.

“Only recently have we begun to recognize that inflammatory processes may be ... layer around nerve fibers essential for rapid signal transmission; and interneurons, which are particularly ...