Inflammation is immune mediated and is one of the most common mechanisms of disease. Disease Study Guide Allergy Center Inflammation is one of the most common mechanism of disease.
Inflammation is manifest by pain, swelling, redness band loss of function in the afflicted tissue.
The process is created by immune cells invading the tissue like an army in full battle mode. From the Alpha Nutrition Professional Manual by Stephen Gislason MD Chronic inflammation is a product of the Type IV hypersensitivity mechanisms. Cell-mediated immunity is initiated by several cell populations, including mast cells, macrophages, eosinophils, and neutrophils. The net effect of sustained immune activity in any target organ is inflammation with local dysfunction, associated with systemic symptoms from immune mediators released into the bloodstream. Immune activity in GIT, for example, may create systemic symptoms by mediator release.