"Acute-Phase Reaction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An early local inflammatory reaction to insult or injury that consists of fever, an increase in inflammatory humoral factors, and an increased synthesis by hepatocytes of a number of proteins or glycoproteins usually found in the plasma.
| Descriptor ID |
D000210
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.470.099
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| Concept/Terms |
Acute-Phase Reaction- Acute-Phase Reaction
- Acute Phase Reaction
- Reaction, Acute-Phase
- Reaction, Acute Phase
- Response, Acute-Phase
- Acute-Phase Response
- Response, Acute Phase
- Acute-Phase State
- Acute Phase State
- State, Acute-Phase
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acute-Phase Reaction" by people in Profiles.
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Evidence of the peripheral inflammatory response in patients with transient ischemic attack. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2007 Sep-Oct; 16(5):203-7.
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Raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate signals heart failure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2007 Jan; 66(1):76-80.
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Invited commentary: low cholesterol and nonartherosclerotic disease risk: a persistently perplexing question. Am J Epidemiol. 2000 Apr 15; 151(8):748-51.