Resolution phase of inflammation: novel endogenous anti-inflammatory and proresolving lipid mediators and pathways
Resolution phase of inflammation: novel endogenous anti-inflammatory and proresolving lipid mediators and pathways
Serhan, C.N.
Annual Review of Immunology 25: 101-137
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0732-0582
PMID: 17090225
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.25.022106.141647
Resolution of inflammation and the return of tissues to homeostasis are essential. Efforts to identify molecular events governing termination of self-limited inflammation uncovered pathways in resolving exudates that actively generate, from essential omega fatty acids, new families of local-acting mediators.