Inflammation
What is inflammation?
- Physiological response to injury, infection, malignancy
- Classic signs include fever, redness, swelling
- Many molecules and cells involved (e.g. cytokines, eicosanoids)
Acute Inflammation – necessary to protect the body
Chronic inflammation – associated with many diseases
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Many types of cancer
- Macular degeneration
Anti-inflammatory agents can prevent/slow disease progression
Impaired Renal Function in Dogs
- Dogs with impaired renal function of various causes had markedly higher expression of 3 cytokines and 5-lipoxygenase compared to healthy dogs
- Elevated cytokines included: interleukins 1-alpha and 1-beta, and transforming growth factor-beta
- These elevated markers are part of the cellular inflammatory response to both acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease
[Nentwig et al, AJVR, 77:218-224, 2016]
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