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Acute Inflammation

Acute inflammation is the immediate, short-lived response of the body's innate immune system to harmful stimuli such as infection, injury, or toxins, characterized clinically by redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of function. It involves vascular changes, increased blood flow and permeability, and the rapid rec…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 26× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Acute inflammation is the immediate, short-lived response of the body's innate immune system to harmful stimuli such as infection, injury, or toxins, characterized clinically by redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of function. It involves vascular changes, increased blood flow and permeability, and the rapid recruitment of leukocytes and inflammatory mediators to the affected site, serving to neutralize threats, clear damaged tissue, and initiate repair. Research in this area examines the anti-inflammatory effects of natural substances such as black cumin and honey, and the measurement of inflammatory serum cytokines in experimental models of systemic inflammatory response. Acute inflammatory processes are central to many clinical conditions studied here, including acute pancreatitis assessed through severity indices and biochemical markers, acute pneumonia, and the inflammatory dimensions of infectious disease such as COVID-19. Imaging and laboratory evaluation of inflammatory conditions, including enterography in inflammatory bowel disease and ultrasound for acute appendicitis, reflect the diagnostic assessment of inflammation. Other work addresses cytokine elevations in infection and pregnancy and inflammatory changes in tissue and granulomatous disease. When appropriately regulated, acute inflammation resolves once the inciting stimulus is removed; when dysregulated or sustained, it may contribute to tissue damage or transition toward chronic inflammation. The field studies the mediators, mechanisms, and clinical manifestations of this protective response and the means to modulate it.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Elliptical Aggregates – Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis

Bajaj AnubhaCorresponding author
MD. (Pathology) Panjab University, Department of Histopathology, A.B. Diagnostics, A-1, Ring Road, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, 110027, India.
Exact topic International Journal of Infection Prevention Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2690-4837.ijip-19-3145

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 26 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Inflammation Research.

Journal editorial board
Thomas Boldicke · Germany Graziella Curtale · Italy Frederic Velard · France

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