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Abstract
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.
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- Acute Phase Response
- Acute-Phase State
- Reaction, Acute-Phase
- Response, Acute-Phase
- Acute Phase Reaction
- Acute Phase Responses
- Acute Phase State
- Acute-Phase Response
- Phase Response, Acute
- Reaction, Acute Phase
- Response, Acute Phase
- State, Acute-Phase
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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note category: in presence of a disease, use /etiol, not /compl
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History Note
92; was ACUTE PHASE REACTION 1987-91 (see under INFLAMMATION 1987-90)
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- Acute Disease (1968-1986)
- Inflammation (1966-1986)
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- National Library of Medicine. Acute-Phase Reaction. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000210. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000210
- Acute-Phase Reaction. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68637337