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Table 1 Surgical inflammation could be viewed as a high-degree stress response of the patient composed of three overlapping successive phenotypes

From: Surgical inflammatory stress: the embryo takes hold of the reins again

INFLAMMATORY PHENOTYPES IN SURGICAL INFLAMMATION

NEUROGENIC

IMMUNE

ENDOCRINE

- Stress sensation

- Bone marrow-related response

- Epiblast-derived pluripotent stem cells

- Inflammatory pain

- Hematopoietic stem cell activation

- Mesenchymal stem cell activation

- Fight-to-flight effect

- Signaling molecules:

- Fibrocytes

- Analgesia

 * Chemokines

-Endothelial progenitor cells

- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal cortical activation

 * Toll-like receptors

- Signaling molecules:

 

 * Cytokines

 * Chemokines and their receptors

- Sympatico-adrenal medullary activation

- Leukocyte activation

- Anabolic hormones

- Tachycardia

- Bacterial translocation

 * Insulin

- Shock

- Enzymatic stress

 * GH

- Ischemia-reperfusion

- Acute phase response

 * IGF1

- Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis activation

- Coagulaton/Complement system activation

- CARS

  

- Resolution

- Hydroelectrolytic alterations

- Coagulopathy

 * Lipoxin

- Interstitial edema

- Dyslipidemia

 * Resolvins

- Increased lymph flow

- SIRS/MODS

 * Protectins

- Hypoxia

- Lymph node activation

- Angiogenesis/vasculogenesis

- Anaerobic acidosis

- Local stress response by leukocytes

- Blood capillaries

- Hypothermia

- Local cholesterol-derived hormones

- Specialezed epithelium

 

- Hypercatabolism

- Energetic stress

 

- Hypermetabolism

- Oxidative phosphorylation

  

- Centralization of neuroendocrine functions

  

- PTSD

  1. CARS: Compensatory Anti-inflammatory Response Syndrome. SIRS/MODS: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.