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The term acute phase response summarizes a number of very complex endocrine and metabolic or neurological changes observed in an organism, either locally or systemically, a short time after injuries or the onset of infections, immunological reactions, and inflammatory processes (see also: Neuroimmune network). Each form of injury or tissue disorder that precipitates an inflammatory response inevitably also causes an acute phase reaction (see also: inflammation, wound healing).
An acute phase reaction is characterized, among other things, by fever, and an increase in the numbers of peripheral leukocytes, in particular an increase in the numbers of circulating neutrophils
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