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To absorb or assimilate a product of the body such as an exudates or cellular growth.  

Reduce inflammation or swelling. Promoting resolution or the dissipation of a pathologic growth. A substance used to reduce inflammation or swelling; also a liquid used to dissolve over substances. Medicine that reduces swelling or inflammation. An agent that disperses swelling, or effects absorption of a new growth. Inducing the dissolution or dispersion of tissue; a…

A substance that induces subsidence of inflammation.  

A cysteine-rich protein secreted by adipose tissue of mice and rats. A 108-residue hormone that blocks insulin action in fat cells. A hormone mainly secreted by adipose tissue (fat) in rats and macrophage cells in humans, which then acts on the liver to antagonise the effects of insulin in lowering blood sugar. It thereby links…

A transfected gene that produces a signal, such as green fluorescence, when it is expressed. A specific gene that is inserted into the DNA of a cell so that cell will “report” (to researchers) when signal transduction has occurred in that cell. For example, when researchers are testing numerous candidate drugs for their ability to…

The restoration of blood flow to an organ or tissue that has had its blood supply cut off, as after a heart attack. Restoration of blood supply to tissue which is ischemic due to decrease in normal blood supply. The decrease may result from any source including atherosclerotic obstruction, narrowing of the artery, or surgical…

Also called the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is a hormone system that regulates blood pressure and water (fluid) balance.  

A medicine or an application for allaying heat, fever or its symptoms. An agent that produces coolness or reduces fever, allays thirst and gives a sensation of coolness to the system. An agent used to reduce fever. An herb that cools the blood, or appears to do so. Generally cooling in effect, also reduces fevers.…

Is considered as the cumulative action of all free radical reactions and antioxidant defenses in different tissues.