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It also activates T cells, B cells, and macrophages and is a central mediator of the hepatic acute phase response (Lancet 2007; [Epub doi:10.

The acute phase response to tissue injury and inflammation is accompanied by a dramatic increase in the hepatic synthesis of plasma proteins known as acute phase reactants (APRs).

Individual relationship between progression of radiological damage and the acute phase response in early rheumatoid arthritis.

However, when the acute phase response is chronically activated, it can be harmful.

Successful MI compensation involved early remote zone gene activation including an acute phase response, initiation of a cytoprotective program, recruitment of extensive developmental transcription factors and induction of signaling pathways associated with cell proliferation.

Patients need to be aware of the acute phase response, with flulike symptoms that may appear for a few days after the infusion, which he said can be mitigated with pain medication.

The increasing prevalence of clinical and subclinical diseases that induce an acute phase response may also underlie the modest, although statistically significant, increase in median CRP concentrations over the decades of age sampled in the present large number of subjects.

These results may be because of the fact that, in acute pancreatitis patients, there is an activation of the acute phase response that is more pronounced in the severe form of the disease and involves proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 at an early stage (27).