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MeSH Heading: Acute-Phase Reaction
Tree Number(s): C23.550.470.099
Unique ID: D000210
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000210
Annotation: note category: in presence of a disease, use /‌etiol, not /‌compl
Scope Note: An early local inflammatory reaction to insult or injury that consists of fever, an increase in inflammatory humoral factors, and an increased synthesis by hepatocytes of a number of proteins or glycoproteins usually found in the plasma.
Entry Term(s): Acute Phase Response; Acute-Phase State; Reaction, Acute-Phase; Response, Acute-Phase
Previous Indexing: Acute Disease (1968-1986); Inflammation (1966-1986)
Public MeSH Note: 92; was ACUTE PHASE REACTION 1987-91 (see under INFLAMMATION 1987-90)
Online Note: use ACUTE-PHASE REACTION to search ACUTE PHASE REACTION 1987-91
History Note: 92; was ACUTE PHASE REACTION 1987-91 (see under INFLAMMATION 1987-90)
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1986/03/25
Revision Date: 2022/04/13

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0000325
Scope Note: An early local inflammatory reaction to insult or injury that consists of fever, an increase in inflammatory humoral factors, and an increased synthesis by hepatocytes of a number of proteins or glycoproteins usually found in the plasma.
Terms: Acute-Phase Reaction Preferred Term
Term UI T000611
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1987); Acute Phase Response
Term UI T001112348
Date09/24/2021
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Acute-Phase State
Term UI T000612
Date03/25/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Reaction, Acute-Phase
Term UI T000610
Date03/25/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Response, Acute-Phase
Term UI T000613
Date03/25/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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