Inflammatory hormones like bradykinin and histamine irritate nerves, causing pain signals to be sent to the brain, which serves a protective function by encouraging the protection of the affected body part.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
  In brief: What is an inflammation? - InformedHealth.org - NCBI - NIH

Sources

• In brief: What is an inflammation? - InformedHealth.org - NCBI - NIH www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) via serper

Referenced by nodes (2)

• histamine-1 concept
• pain concept