Term Name: inflammatory response
Synonyms: inflammation
Definition: The immediate defensive reaction (by vertebrate tissue) to infection or injury caused by chemical or physical agents. The process is characterized by local vasodilation, extravasation of plasma into intercellular spaces and accumulation of white blood cells and macrophages.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0006954]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: cytokine production involved in inflammatory response histamine secretion involved in inflammatory response inflammasome-mediated signaling pathway leukocyte activation involved in inflammatory response leukocyte chemotaxis involved in inflammatory response leukocyte migration involved in inflammatory response lysosomal enzyme secretion involved in inflammatory response production of molecular mediator involved in inflammatory response respiratory burst involved in inflammatory response serotonin secretion involved in inflammatory response wound healing involved in inflammatory response
is a type of: defense response
has subtype: acute inflammatory response chronic inflammatory response inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus inflammatory response to wounding neuroinflammatory response pyroptotic inflammatory response
inverse capable_of: classical monocyte
inverse participates_in: elicited macrophage
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of inflammatory response
positively regulated by: positive regulation of inflammatory response
regulated by: regulation of inflammatory response