INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR

Is a protective response, where the goal is to rid the body of the initial cause of injury and the consequences:

• ACUTE: relatively short duration. There is an alteration of blood vesels such that there is an exudation of fluid and plasma proteins, with an emigration of leukocytes, predominantly neutrophils, into the focus of injury.
• CHRONIC: is of longer duration and is associated with the accumulation of lymphocytes and macrophages and allowing the repair process to occur, using angiogenesis and/ or fibrosis.