• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Massey Documents by Type
    • Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Massey Documents by Type
    • Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Comparative pathology of inflammation in the sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Icon
    View/Open Full Text
    02_whole.pdf (21.29Mb)
    01_front.pdf (2.635Mb)
    Export to EndNote
    Abstract
    The inflammatory reaction is fundamental to the survival of the organism. It cannot be over-emphasised that without it there could be no protection against the effects of noxious external stimuli nor repair of damaged tissue (see Ebert, 1965). The inflammatory response, however, has attracted renewed interest in recent years with the realisation that inflammation may become aberrant and considerably more harmful to the body than the noxious stimulus which initiated the reaction. Thus, in some diseases a large portion of tissue damage results from the inflammatory response itself. Allergic and rheumatic diseases fall into this category (see Spector and Willoughby, 1963a). Ebert (1965) suggests that " ...... within certain limits the inflammatory reaction is stereotyped and it cannot distinguish between those instances in which the process protects the host and those in which the host is harmed". Inflammation is difficult to define. Spector and Willoughby (1963a) have suggested that, "In vertebrates it could perhaps be described as the local reaction to injury of the living microcirculation and its associated tissues, in which would be included blood leucocytes and such features of perivascular tissue as mast cells and histiocytes". More recently, Ebert (1965) in an attempt to define inflammation pointed out that "It is difficult to give a definition which is neither so all-inclusive as to be meaningless nor so specific that it is too restrictive.", and suggested that "Inflammation is a process which begins following a sublethal injury to tissue and ends with complete healing".
    Date
    1967
    Author
    Vegad, Jawahar Lal
    Rights
    The Author
    Publisher
    Massey University
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3951
    Collections
    • Theses and Dissertations
    Metadata
    Show full item record

    Copyright © Massey University
    | Contact Us | Feedback | Copyright Take Down Request | Massey University Privacy Statement
    DSpace software copyright © Duraspace
    v5.7-2020.1-beta1
     

     

    Tweets by @Massey_Research
    Information PagesContent PolicyDepositing content to MROCopyright and Access InformationDeposit LicenseDeposit License SummaryTheses FAQFile FormatsDoctoral Thesis Deposit

    Browse

    All of MROCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Copyright © Massey University
    | Contact Us | Feedback | Copyright Take Down Request | Massey University Privacy Statement
    DSpace software copyright © Duraspace
    v5.7-2020.1-beta1