Tag: mast cell
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Inflammation, Alcohol, and Pain
Pain is, at its core, a signal of inflammation. Understanding how the immune system generates that inflammation — and how alcohol use specifically adds fuel to the fire — makes it easier to understand how inflammation contributes to chronic pain, and what might help resolve that inflammation. How the Immune System Creates Inflammation When toll-like…
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Quercetin
Among the polyphenol phytochemicals found in blueberries, broccoli, onions, and green tea is the flavonoid quercetin (Li et al., 2021). Quercetin is also found in apples and grapes (Gugliandolo et al., 2020). Sanver et al. describe the structure of quercetin in a peer-reviewed primary article; they found that the different structures of different types of…
