THE PHENOMENON OF THE ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE
THE PHENOMENON OF THE ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1982.tb22124.x
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
KUSHNER, I
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作者:
KUSHNER, I
The maintenance of physiologic homeostasis during the ups and downs of daily living is assured by a number of physiologic mechanisms. From time to time, however, perturbing events occur-tissue injury and infection-which represent a threat to the integrity of the organism, and appear to require readjustments in the usual metabolic and physiologic equilibria. The local response of tissue to such injury or infection is acute inflammation; its major clinical manifestations result from changes in vascular caliber and flow, increased vascular permeability, and attraction of leukocytes.’The mechanisms which play a role in the inflammatory response have been the subject of intense investigative effort; many of them have been described in the preceding papers by Drs. Weissman and Kaplan. In addition, during the first few days following insult, a vast number of systemic and metabolic changes occur: the acute phase response. From a teleological point of view one must assume that the systemic, acute phase response is of value in helping to permit survival during the period immediately following injury, and in achieving the same goals as the local inflammatory response does: containment or destruction of infectious agents, removal of damaged tissue, and repair of the affected organ. Studies of the acute phase response in man have usually been limited to single causes of tissue injury, eg, infection,(and at times only specific infections),