A Possible Approach to Suppressing Only Chronic Inflammation, Not Acute Inflammation The chronic inflammation of aging is a major contribution to the onset and progression of age-related disease. The immune system reacts to forms of molecular damage and dysfunction characteristic of aging in a maladaptive way, and the long-term consequences are unfortunate. Short-term inflammation is necessary and important, needed in contexts ranging from infection to suppression of cancer to regeneration following injury. Sustained, unresolved inflammation is disruptive to tissue structure and function, however. The biggest challenge in finding ways to suppress long-term inflammation is that it appears to use the same systems of regulation as short-term inflammation, and thus successful approaches not only sabotage undesirable inflammation, but also degrade the effectiveness of the immune system. If there is a way to work around this problem, we […]
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