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Inflammation
When damage to tissue occurs, the body's immunologic response to the damage is usually inflammation. The damage may be due to
trauma, lack of blood supply, haemorrhage or infection. This generalised response by the body includes
the release of many components of the immune system (e.g. and
), attraction of cells to the site of the damage,
swelling of tissue due to the release of fluid and other processes. Examples of conditions where inflammation is
often present include :
and
of inflammation are reduced by
medications such as
and .
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